So what is Yahoo up to lately? Beyond helping throw Chinese journalists in prison, Yahoo is also banned the word "Allah" from e-mail handles. It was alongside other words like "raghead" and "nazi". Meanwhile, words like "God" "Jesus" and "Priest" were allowed.
It came up when Ed Callahan tried to regist an e-mail accoutn with his name in it. Apparently his name was offensive. But offensive no longer.
Yahoo has unbanned "Allah" now. But what drove them to ban the word in the first place? I understand racial slurs and bad words, but banning "Allah?" Come on.
I agree with Ed Callahan:
"On one level this is just silliness. But we have a war on terrorism and it's migrating to be a war on Muslims - this just shows the confusion there is between the two and how pervasive this is."
Yahoo claims it was a glitch. Yeah, right.
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