Verizon Denies DSL Because of Subscriber's Name

mikek2 writes "When retired Philadelphia-area doctor and Vietnam veteran Dr. Herman I. Libshitz went to upgrade his dial-up connection to Verizon DSL, he was informed they wouldn't complete the order because his last name contained an expletive. Repeated calls to several levels of management at Verizon failed to resolve the problem, with several managers suggesting he change his last name. It all worked out in the end, after the Philadelphia Enquirer intervened."

Comments

Re:This has nothing to do with his name..

[mobby_6kl]

This might be the first time ever that I feel like punching several posters from one story in the face until they relax a little. Yeah Verizon should've allowed the name, but everyone's making it sound like it's a huge fucking tragedy. Has anyone compared this to the holocaust yet?

People are denied the use of their real names in email addresses all the time. If I were to try to register an email with any of the major providers, I would be denied the use of my real first and last names because they use the cyrillic alphabet. I could use some latin approximation which would sound similar enough or just use something else, but that would be an insult to my ancestors who were massacred by the Turks and fought bravely against the Germans. Still, I get over myself and use a latin approximation, but then it turns out that the address is already in use! Those assholes, what am I going to do now!?! I have dishonored my family by not using an email address with my full real names and now I will have to die. So long.

Re:Monopoly

[Corbets]

Your argument: There is no economic incentive for them to create a better obscenity filter because they are a monopoly.

Another possible argument: A better obscenity filter costs money, which costs must (most likely) be passed on to the customer, who in perhaps all other cases except this man's, doesn't want to pay more for such a service. Hence, no economic incentive, regardless of monopoly status.

There are (almost) always multiple possible motives, people; thinking you can sit in your parents basement and know them all is nothing short of arrogance.

Re:This has nothing to do with his name..

[DaedalusHKX]

I was under the impression that jewish supremacy and religious doctrine and racial purity (no, when jews do it its not "racism") was part of the standard indoctrination of jewish children. Had a girlfriend at about the beginning of my teens. When her mom found out I wasn't jewish... ye unholy gods did she raise hell. Eventually it was break up or she gets kicked out of the house. Needless to say she was a good child, very obedient, like most humans in fact. She caved... and I didn't forgive her for years, until I realized what jews gotta put up with. Anti semitism is not even a quarter as racist as pro judaism is.

Scary shit. Scarier still considering how well we got along before her mama found out I wasn't a jew. Amusing... really... now that I look back on it.