Website Bans Woman With "Unacceptable" Name

Barbarian writes "In an example of censorware gone awry, Digital Freedom Network reports on how the website Blackplanet.com will not let a woman register because her name contains the word "cock", as do many last names. Thinking it was an oversight, she emailed the site administrators and was told, "unfortunately, the letters that form the word 'Cock' is [sic] unacceptable and will not be recognized by our system." The site intends to continue using the censorware, and if the woman wants to register, she can change her name."

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The World's Worst Email Address

[Demiah]

Reminds me of an old article I ran into on Usenet a few years back..

A student at college, Mary Emily Cummins fell foul of the institute's email address policy.

They took the first six letters of the surname followed by the initials of the forname. She ended up with cumminme@something.edu.

Would they allow her to change it? Of course not.