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The censored one is probably Niger

UPDATE - special thanks to @dditty@lemm.ee for making a map showing the countries without access to PSN:

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[–] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 42 points 5 months ago (2 children)

"Niger" is a swear according to valve?

[–] fluckx@lemmy.world 58 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Because it closely resembles a slur. Its one of those false positives. But the tool that replaces it likely isn't context aware.

[–] whoisearth@lemmy.ca 52 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Nigeria please that is a stupid rule

[–] swayevenly@lemm.ee 27 points 5 months ago (3 children)

I'm ghana have to ask you to calm down.

[–] fluckx@lemmy.world 16 points 5 months ago (2 children)
[–] whoisearth@lemmy.ca 14 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I've Benin fights before but this is stupid.

[–] reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 8 points 5 months ago

Oman I know where this is going

[–] BackOnMyBS@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago

Kenya stop telling me what to do?

[–] LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 5 months ago
[–] whoisearth@lemmy.ca 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Grenada go and do that now aren't you? Typical!

[–] systemguy_64@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

What Chad made this decision?

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

They probably pipe all their output text through a filter that was originally intended for user generated content. Might not really make sense but something tells me at some point there was a typo from a valve employee that prompted this decision

[–] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago

The dumbest version of the Scunthorpe problem