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"Niger" is a swear according to valve?
Because it closely resembles a slur. Its one of those false positives. But the tool that replaces it likely isn't context aware.
Nigeria please that is a stupid rule
I'm ghana have to ask you to calm down.
Yeah calm Djibouti down
I've Benin fights before but this is stupid.
Oman I know where this is going
Kenya stop telling me what to do?
South Africa
Grenada go and do that now aren't you? Typical!
What Chad made this decision?
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
The dumbest version of the Scunthorpe problem