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Yahoo! Bans "Allah" in Screen Names

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the when-things-go-to-far dept.

szembek writes "According to The Register it seems that Yahoo! is banning the use of the string "Allah" in all screen names. The issue apparently became apparent when Linda Callahan attempted to use her surname in her screen name. The following link has an interesting list of terms that Yahoo does allow, and ones they don't."

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  1. It's a good thing... by AllPowerToAllah · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...slashdot hasn't!

    1. Re:It's a good thing... by AGMW · · Score: 5, Funny
      A few years back there were a lot of unhappy people in Scunthorpe as their town was always excluded for some reason?

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    2. Re:It's a good thing... by plover · · Score: 5, Funny
      Yeah, the same three English teams always seem to get caught in the filtering software:
      • Arsenal
      • Scunthorpe
      • Manchester-fucking-United
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    3. Re:It's a good thing... by JohnFluxx · · Score: 3, Funny

      If you do, are you allowed to use a avatar? :) :)

  2. Global demonstrations against Yahoo! by GeekBoy · · Score: 4, Funny

    Here we go again, Good thing Yahoo doesn't have embassies to torch. :)

    1. Re:Global demonstrations against Yahoo! by ScentCone · · Score: 4, Funny

      Here we go again, Good thing Yahoo doesn't have embassies to torch. :)

      Well, that won't really help. You know, since unhappiness over cartoons from Denmark somehow translated into burning down a KFC in Pakistan. You know, that famous Danish outfit, "Kentucky Fried Chicken."

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    2. Re:Global demonstrations against Yahoo! by BiggerBoat · · Score: 5, Funny

      Apparently they thought it was "København Fried Chicken."

  3. Re:Jesus Christ! by saskboy · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'm expecting a flood of Allah and YWHW Slashdot registrations today.

    Muhammed is said to be unimpressed with the maturity level of the average Slashdotter.

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  4. Dammit Callahan, by Rob+T+Firefly · · Score: 4, Funny

    This is NOT your personal war! Those people have rights!

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  5. It's just lucky... by clickety6 · · Score: 3, Funny

    .. she doesn't live in Scunthorpe as well...

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  6. Re:Trends! by Golias · · Score: 4, Funny

    My response to people who are too easily "offended" by funny pictures, disrespectful online names, etc.:

    My very own Mohammed cartoon

    Make one of your own. Share with your friend. C'mon, folks, the time is now to be juvenile!

    Like the old saying goes: "The Internet sees censorship as damage and routes around it." Well, dammit, that might be true, but I'm tired of people damaging the Internet! Let's do what we can to make them unhappy.

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  7. My new handle should be "skeet skeet skeet" by lowrydr310 · · Score: 5, Funny

    "What's so dope about skeet? White people don't know what it means yet... When they figure it out, they're going to be like, 'My God, what have we done?!'"

  8. Mod Parent Down by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    -1 Terrorbait

  9. Re:Jesus Christ! by AllahIsAPedoAndAHomo · · Score: 4, Funny

    This is a rediculous accusation! Oh wait...

  10. Re:Secondary filters? by Haeleth · · Score: 4, Funny

    Consider this. "Pen" is an ok word, "Island" is ok too. So I want to celebrate Pen Island with a domain name... penisland.com? Oops?

    The classic real-world example of that being when the Italian company Powergen created a website with the perfectly obvious name of "PowergenItalia".