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Originally Posted by HarryT
OK, now you've lost me. How does "owned" end up in an obscenity filter? One can understand why the inhabitants of the English seaside town on "Scunthorpe" have long had to live with the problem of not being able to use their town's name on AOL, etc, but "owned"?
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It's not really about an "obscenity" filter. A lot of times it was used when players wanted to start taunting each other... which eventually led to a bunch of obscenity (it's the 21st century version of saying "Nyah nyah" on the schoolyard). That's mainly why stuff like that was added to filters. Of course, it's trivial for people to just get around the filters, hence "pwned", so the whole thing is kind of pointless (kind of reminds me of DRM).