Yahoo Bans Allah

February 21st, 2006 by Quan Tranh

In addition to selling users search terms to the federal government, Yahoo! has now gone politically correct by banning the use of Allah in email addresses. Osama, binladen, and raghead are also on the banned list but somehow killallmuslimsandarabs1 was allowed. This must be a half-assed glitch attempt to censor user names in the name of not offending anyone. It’s interesting what else slipped by.

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