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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. Re:Jesus Christ! by EvilAlien · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    "On the whole, Christians don't threaten death to company executives or members of the press if they disagree with their opinions."

    Are you trying to suggest that, on the whole, Muslims do? Put another way, all Muslims are prone to utter death threats at those that disagree with them? And Christians, god-fearing Christians (why are they so afraid?), are somehow morally superior (on the whole)?

    Good thing you limited your comment to the last few decades, because you almost would have had to consider that Adolf Hitler was a Christian.

    I'm just sayin'...

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  2. Re:Jesus Christ! by Glsai · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Yeah I thought Swordfish was a pretty good movie too.

  3. Hey mods FUCK YOU by flyinwhitey · · Score: 0, Offtopic



    I made a legitimate point, and your cowardly asses modded it down.

    Stop being such a pathetic group of assholes and SAY what you object to.

    Modding me down because you dislike what I had to say, and how strongly I say it, is really fucking sad.

    Of course, not one pices of trash that actually modded will own up. They're too impressed with their own power to actually think before exercising it.

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    How pathetic are you that you follow me from topic to topic and waste all your mod points at once modding me down?