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* Don't try to say Homo Sapiens on [[Halo|Bungie.net]]. Why? Because they will be -blam!- Sapiens. Yes, the filter replaces swears with -blam!-, as it was Halo's second codename. The first one was Monkey Nuts, and was changed when Bungie founder Jason Jones (no relation to the one on [[The Daily Show]]) wanted to tell his mother about the game.
** They have a similar problem with naming a custom map in Halo 3. Among others, you can't use the word assault... ''even though there's a game type called "Assault"''!
* AT&T has banned numerous words from use as or in usernames, including some [
* The [[IMDb]] boards keep mild swearing but replace worse words with *beep*. For example, "ass" is allowed, while its derivative, "asshole", is beeped and as a further result, talking about [[Alfred Hitchcock]] is more or less impossible. The censorship policy also beeps certain Japanese words with worse swear words within them, such as "dashitara" and "Odago",<ref>for the anti-Italian slur "dago"</ref> both of which are perfectly okay. This occasionally makes talking about characters in Japanese films a problem - [[Battle Royale|Yoshitoki Kuninobu's name]] being rendered as *beep* Kuninobu, for example.
** Also, it's hard to tag LG with the backronym "Les Gooks" on the boards when discussing their recent war over the [[Play Station 3]].
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