“It's well done, like the rest of his content.”
Tom Scott on why web filters fail
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Tom Scott did a video on this: Why Web Filters Don't Work: Penistone and the Scunthorpe Problem - this video It's well done, like the rest of his content.
Why Web Filters Don't Work: Penistone and the Scunthorpe Problem
3.6M views · Jun 6, 2016 · 3:37 · 2 HN recommenders · 4 mentions · discussed 2017–2026
Tom Scott visits Penistone to explain the Scunthorpe problem, showing why naive web and profanity filters block innocent words.
Why Hacker News points people here: The go-to explainer whenever content filters wrongly flag innocent words, well made and short.
“He talks about how it's impossible to implement with all edge-cases, easy to circumvent”HN comment, 2020
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“He talks about how it's impossible to implement with all edge-cases, easy to circumvent”
Why profanity filtering has edge cases and is easy to circumvent
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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] this video
“Penistone and Scunthorpe and now Memphis.”
The Scunthorpe problem applied to Twitter moderation
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Penistone and Scunthorpe and now Memphis. this 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.
“kinda eerie to watch now with today”
Tom Scott video that feels eerie in the LLM era
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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. this video