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Why Web Filters Don't Work: Penistone and the Scunthorpe Problem
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Tom Scott visits Penistone to explain the Scunthorpe problem, showing why naive web and profanity filters block innocent words.
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The go-to explainer whenever content filters wrongly flag innocent words, well made and short.
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Tom Scott did a video on this: Why Web Filters Don't Work: Penistone and the Scunthorpe Problem - [VIDEO] It's well done, like the rest of his content.
Read original comment ↗There is a video [0] about this censoring-"problem" by Youtuber Tom Scott. He talks about how it's impossible to implement with all edge-cases, easy to circumvent and thus usually not a good idea. Fittingly, the video is filmed in Peniston. [0] [VIDEO]
Read original comment ↗Penistone and Scunthorpe and now Memphis. [VIDEO] As much as I dislike Twitter (I only really use it for work reasons) they are in a no win situation. They either moderate what people post with a flawed system that will never be 100% or be hounded by the "Why won't anyone think of the children" group.
Read original comment ↗With Tom Scott in particular, there’s a number of his videos that are kinda eerie to watch now with today’s LLM context eg. [VIDEO]
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