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Scunthorpe problem (en.wikipedia.org)

submitted 3 days ago by kersploosh@sh.itjust.works to c/wikipedia@lemmy.world

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[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 27 points 3 days ago (1 children)

In February 2006, Linda Callahan was initially prevented from registering her name with Yahoo! as an e-mail address as it contained the substring Allah. Yahoo! later reversed the ban.

I know I'm expecting too much from a war on terror-era Western company, but did these idiots not think of (among other things) people called Abdallah?

[–] Drusas@fedia.io 5 points 2 days ago

Probably not. I've never heard of any Abdallahs that I can recall.