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lemmy.dbzer0.com

Sounds plausible but if you search for

  1. dont - 12k results
  2. don t - 2k results
  3. don't - 70k results

But there's other very strange redactions as well, like "I" here

It's probably some shitty AI work

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So least amount of unredacted combination of the three is the closer one to what they said they're trying to redact. The automation could've been employed partially through too, meaning some were left out early/late

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That tracks. WAY back in the day, you couldn’t say “wristwatch” or “pocketwatch”’ on the GameFAQs forum. Can you figure out why? It blocked both as one word or two.

It’s because both have “twat” in them. Any word that ended in T, followed by a word that begins with WAT, was automatically flagged for moderation.

Same situation. Kind of. Way different scale, sure. But similar logic by the computer.

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And famously at one time the people of Scunthorpe in the UK couldn't post their town's name on many websites.

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My favorite was a multitool forum that censored all swear words to "smurf." A common topic of discussion was the use of stainless steel Leatherman tools in and around the ocean, if they would corrode in that environment, and how to clean and care for them in and around salsmurfer.

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salsmurfer

Salfucker? Salcunter? Salasser? Salbitcher? Salshiter? Salcraper? Salbutter? Salnutsacker? Saldicker? Salcocker? Saltwater oh okay there it is.

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It's always something wacky with the redactions, someone over there sucks ass at Regex

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lemmy.world

Is there an explanation for the use of the equal sign for the letter e on lots of his emails?

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alsimoneaureply
lemmy.ca

I saw a post about this. Wrong decoding of email format.

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petersrreply
lemmy.world

Then the real question is: why the hell has a digital medium been printed just to be scanned + OCR'ed? (and because clearly redactions are not done physically).

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A lot of the degenerate pedophiles in question are grey haired boomers, a cohort that just...loves to print shit out on paper for some reason.

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I hear you. But I am guessing that the agents, investigators and other case officials are not all boomers. There are probably hundreds of people on a case like this and their ages probably span all age groups.

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