Great Firewall of UK Blocks Game Patch Because of Substring Matches

[wraggster]

Remember the fun of spurious substring matches, AKA the S****horpe problem (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S****horpe_problem)? The UK's advanced 'intelligent' internet filters do. Supposedly the country's great new filtering regime has been blocking a patch for League of Legends (http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jan/21/uk-porn-filter-blocks-game-update-that-contained-sex) because some of the filenames within it include the substring 'sex.' Add one to the list of embarrassing failures for the nation's new mosaic of opt-out censorship systems, which have proven themselves incapable of distinguishing between abusive sites and sites for abuse victims, or sites for pornography versus sites for sexual and gender minorities.

http://news.slashdot.org/story/14/01/22/2042239/great-firewall-of-uk-blocks-game-patch-because-of-substring-matches