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French ISP Orange Fined For Offensive Temporary Password

Posted by samzenpus on from the you-said-what dept.

courteaudotbiz writes "French ISP Orange has been fined 13000 Euros after being sued by a man named Mohamed Zaidi, who has been assigned the temporary password 'salearabe' (dirtyarab) by e-mail after he placed a support call. At the hearing, the prosecutor called the password 'offensive, insulting and even defamatory.'"

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  1. bad translation, unsurprising judgment by Keith_Beef · · Score: 3, Informative

    Bad Google translation... The decision, as reported in the Canadian press, was that Orange was fined 500 euros (7700 $CAN) and ordered to pay 8 000 euros (12 400$ CAN) in damages to the plaintiff. This term "sale arabe" is more or less equivalent to "nigger". It's used as an insult to people of North African (i.e. predominantly Algerian, Morrocan, Tunisian) origin, and is considered extremey offensive. K.

    1. Re:bad translation, unsurprising judgment by Snaller · · Score: 2, Informative

      I don't care what his psychological problems are, if that was randomly generated he should just shut up.
      Stupid courts.

      If on the other hand someone specifically wrote that because they know some uptight people would get offended, well that person should probably be fired then.

      --
      If Google really cared they would fix Android Chrome to reflow text, instead of discriminating
    2. Re:bad translation, unsurprising judgment by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

      The point, moron, is that it was NOT random. He pissed off someone in support.