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* British digital TV supplier Virgin Media caused laughs when they broadcast Hanc**k, The Story of C****s (Canals), and a show synopsis which included a m***in shop.

* ''[[Mock the Week]]'s Funniest Book of All Time'' fell victim to the [[Trope Namer]] in a list of "Unlikely things to hear from a continuity announcer":

* On [[Pro Boards]], the most notable one has to be "my ass" is changed into "I disagree". Thus you end up with sentences like "The other day, I disagreeistant signed up for the seminar". Oddly enough, "ass" isn't always censored like this, but "my ass" ALWAYS turns into "I disagree".

 

* Humorously, [[Adventure Quest Worlds]] once muted you if ended a sentence with the word grape followed by a period or space. Yet, they have failed to censor semen from their swears list.

* One of the words censored in ''[[The Lord of the Rings Online]]'' (though it is possible to turn off the profanity filter), is the word "queer". Naturally, this becomes a bit of a problem as the [[Have a Gay Old Time|word was used quite frequently]] in the [[The Lord of the Rings|books]] that the game is based on. It becomes even more noticeable when NPC:s can't use the word.

* [[DC Universe Online]] is bad with this. Among many frustrations with the filter, it's inconsistent. If a string of letters has a bad word in it, no matter if it has a space to denote that they aren't words, it will censor (i.e. " Wish it" would become "Wi#####" because of the filter.). However words with a bad word in it (Such as Scunthrope) can get by. It's even possible to say the word "bitchass" even though both words would trip the filter on their own. "Ass" itself is a special word in that "Ass" is used in game content (Wonder Girl uses it in her cut scene). To compound the problem, at the time of writing there is no way to turn off the filter to avoid this problems, and the devs act shocked that the players are asking for one.

* ''zOMG!'' used to have one of these. And then [[Gaia Online]]'s developers realized it was censoring B{{spoiler|ass}}'ken Lake, one of the major areas in the game. It also censored words in other languages, which would annoy English-speaking users who didn't understand why several mundane words kept getting censored.