Yahoo! Unbanned Allah
You can easily identify Bule Bigots by the way they name themselves in blogosphere. Words related to Islam like Allah or Bismillah are used in the middle of other dirty words. The purpose is none other than defamatory. It was for this reasons that Yahoo! banned the use of the name Allah even if it is included within other letters as reported in the February 20th edition of a Sci-Tech portal The Register :
Yahoo! is banning the use of Allah in email names - even if the letters are included within another name. This was uncovered by Register reader Ed Callahan whose mother Linda Callahan was trying to sign up for a Verizon email address. She could not get it to accept her surname.
Enquiries to Verizon revealed that a partnership with Yahoo! was to blame. Yahoo! will not accept any identies which include the letters "allah". Nor will Yahoo! accept yahoo, osama or bin laden. But it will accept god, messiah, jesus, jehova, budha, satan and both priest and pedophile.
Ed Callahan wrote : "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."
The Callahans are still waiting to hear back from Yahoo! A spokesman for Yahoo! UK said: "This sounds like a glitch. But we will get back to Ed and Lindy Callahan with a full answer as soon as possible." .
Later they get back as promised:
"We continuously evaluate abuse patterns in registration usernames to help prevent spam, fraud and other inappropriate behavior. A small number of people registered for IDs using specific terms with the sole purpose of promoting hate, and then used those IDs to post content that was harmful or threatening to others, thus violating Yahoo!'s Terms of Service.
"'Allah' was one word being used for these purposes, with instances tied to defamatory language. We took steps to help protect our users by prohibiting use of the term in Yahoo! usernames. We recently re-evaluated the term 'Allah' and users can now register for IDs with this word because it is no longer a significant target for abuse. We regularly evaluate this type of activity and will continue to make adjustments to our registration process to help foster a positive customer experience."
Yahoo! is banning the use of Allah in email names - even if the letters are included within another name. This was uncovered by Register reader Ed Callahan whose mother Linda Callahan was trying to sign up for a Verizon email address. She could not get it to accept her surname.
Enquiries to Verizon revealed that a partnership with Yahoo! was to blame. Yahoo! will not accept any identies which include the letters "allah". Nor will Yahoo! accept yahoo, osama or bin laden. But it will accept god, messiah, jesus, jehova, budha, satan and both priest and pedophile.
Ed Callahan wrote : "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."
The Callahans are still waiting to hear back from Yahoo! A spokesman for Yahoo! UK said: "This sounds like a glitch. But we will get back to Ed and Lindy Callahan with a full answer as soon as possible." .
Later they get back as promised:
"We continuously evaluate abuse patterns in registration usernames to help prevent spam, fraud and other inappropriate behavior. A small number of people registered for IDs using specific terms with the sole purpose of promoting hate, and then used those IDs to post content that was harmful or threatening to others, thus violating Yahoo!'s Terms of Service.
"'Allah' was one word being used for these purposes, with instances tied to defamatory language. We took steps to help protect our users by prohibiting use of the term in Yahoo! usernames. We recently re-evaluated the term 'Allah' and users can now register for IDs with this word because it is no longer a significant target for abuse. We regularly evaluate this type of activity and will continue to make adjustments to our registration process to help foster a positive customer experience."
posted by Topo at 3/10/2006 03:09:00 PM
6 Comments:
Allahuakbar...Allah is THE GREATEST !!!!
Yahoo mungkin serba salah, dibanned katanya gak adil, gak dibanned ntar dibilang menzolimi islam karena bakal banyak orang yang pake kata "allah" untuk ID yang gak pantas/menghina. Mendingan selesaiin dulu penyakit mental paranoid yang selalu merasa "dizolimi", biar orang yang bukan bagian dari "umat" tidak salah mengerti.
phobia sama islam ya? kok gitu sih
I'm sorry, i'm not getting you right, are you agreeing or disagreeing to Yahoo! decision?
except for obviously pointing out an interesting piece (it is interesting), do you have a point?
The 1st paragraph of my post is the whole point that I want to make, that is there are people around us who enjoy ridiculing Islam.
oh okay. i heard about them, too.
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