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2023-12-16 19:23:08 UTC - NOT_HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 4B2C9F4E9EA2933F0887A94C2E1E8EEE308E7518826CEE90DA34B1234FB140C7
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Microsoft has been stealth updating the program to do this since 2019, often enabling it on by default. Source: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/i-would-like-to-turn-off-the-profanity-filter-on/d71f6086-b978-4d8c-ad08-e2d3fcc4e2b2 An Australian typed the word ‘sick cunt’ (a compliment in OZ) and MS Word pointlessly highlighted it as crude in 2019.
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