diff --git a/code/game/machinery/tcomms/tcomms_core.dm b/code/game/machinery/tcomms/tcomms_core.dm
index 6d191a0ec5ae..0d72b68d1d40 100644
--- a/code/game/machinery/tcomms/tcomms_core.dm
+++ b/code/game/machinery/tcomms/tcomms_core.dm
@@ -323,7 +323,7 @@
 
 		if("add_filter")
 			// This is a stripped input because I did NOT come this far for this system to be abused by HTML injection
-			var/name_to_add = tgui_input_text(usr, "Enter a name to add to the filtering list", "Name Entry")
+			var/name_to_add = tgui_input_text(usr, "Enter a name to add to the filtering list", "Name Entry", encode = FALSE)
 			if(!name_to_add)
 				return
 			if(name_to_add in nttc.filtering)