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Yahoo Reverses Allah Ban
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on Thu Feb 23, 2006 05:07 PM
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damnal writes "Yahoo's ban on "Allah" in users names, has been reversed. The ban was instituted due to a number of people registering for IDs using specific terms with the sole purpose of promoting hate. Yahoo's comment on the reversal: "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.""
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szembek writes "According to The Register it seems that Yahoo! is banning the use of the string "Allah" in all screen names. The issue apparently became apparent when Linda Callahan attempted to use her surname in her screen name. The following link has an interesting list of terms that Yahoo does allow, and ones they don't."
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Considering recent riots... (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Considering recent riots... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Risky business (Score:5, Funny)
No, no look here: @:-)
Re:Risky business (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Considering recent riots... (Score:5, Funny)
2. Make t-shirts
3. Prophet
Re:Considering recent riots... (Score:4, Informative)
(http://en.wikipedia....h_invasion_of_Iberia)
1. Find images
2. Make t-shirts
3. Suffer at the hands of those who may not agree with what you have to say, and will fight to the death to suppress your right to say it. [yahoo.com]
Note: the link is an article about someone who did Steps 1 and 2, and has reached Step 3.
reversed? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:reversed? (Score:5, Funny)
(Last Journal: Saturday February 25 2006, @11:02PM)
Yours will soon be: AllahTheUnknownOne
Mine will soon be: AllahsTubeSteak
Yahoo!'s transition to a media company (Score:5, Interesting)
(http://www.metlin.org/ | Last Journal: Friday July 20, @01:58PM)
While I don't recall Yahoo! performing any heroic deeds in the past, I don't recall them not having a spine, either. However, latetly I've seen the do some pretty spineless things - disclosing information to the Chinese government (twice!), this etc.
Is this because of Yahoo!'s change of focus? They're trying hard to become a media company rather than a technology company.
And of course, considering the fact that someone like Terry Semel (a media executive with little to no technology experience) is leading them, such policies would not be surprising. Ever since Semel's been on board, Yahoo! has taken great pains to build a brand-name, and a lot of tech folks have been replaced by older media people, and Semel has indicated that Yahoo! would "diversify" the way Warner Brothers did.
So, that probably explains why Yahoo! is afraid to ruffle any feathers. While companies like Microsoft and Google are still technology companies at heart, Yahoo! is probably attempting to get into the media, and having bad publicity in the media industry has worse consequences than it would in the high-tech industry.
Just a thought, that's all.
Re:Yahoo!'s transition to a media company (Score:5, Insightful)
(Last Journal: Monday November 12, @09:37AM)
Given that Slashcode is full of features designed to thwart some specific jackass who hasn't been here in five years, at least Yahoo deserves credit for cleaning this up afterwards.
Reversed it? (Score:1, Funny)
(http://booktextmark.mozdev.org/)
Re:Reversed it? (Score:5, Funny)
(Last Journal: Monday November 12, @09:37AM)
You can use Mohammed in your name (Score:5, Funny)
(http://www.networkmirror.com/ | Last Journal: Thursday July 05, @04:34PM)
You might want to take that back (Score:5, Insightful)
Now that it has hit the front page of slashdot, it is once again the target for abuse.
Promoting Hate (Score:2, Insightful)
(http://slashdot.org/~nurb432/ | Last Journal: Friday August 27 2004, @03:24PM)
What a bunch of dorks (Score:5, Insightful)
Now they've realized the idiocy of what they did, and again, rather than admit "Wow, we didn't realize how many words contain the letters 'allah'" they put out some garbage about how "Allah is no longer being used abusively on our sites."
Re:What a bunch of dorks (Score:4, Insightful)
(http://en.wikipedia....h_invasion_of_Iberia)
And if a member of the KKK kills a "black" man would you say "So how's anyone going to tell us that the KKK don't hate black people?"
Islam is not a race, or a sexual preference. Islam is an ideology, and deserves to be scrutinized as such.
Furthermore, the statement "Islam is a religion of peace." is a hypothesis, and deserves to be treated as such. At the moment, the experimental evidence (including the Quran) seems to contradict that hypothesis.
Huh? (Score:5, Insightful)
We recently re-evaluated the term
Looks to me like a typical management-induced knee jerk reaction to a minor problem and the subsequent FUD to try and hide the fact that management were in error.
All I can say is... (Score:4, Funny)
This still leaves Osama... (Score:3, Insightful)
Yahoo Advert on Slashdot (Score:3, Interesting)
(Last Journal: Saturday February 25 2006, @11:02PM)
http://a.as-us.falkag.net/dat/bgf/200506/10/hojoh
Not sure if it's relevant, but the coincidence is worth mentioning.
In other words... (Score:2)
My brothers! (Score:2)
We should raise our eyes now at the equally evil practices of MSN Search!
In the name of the holy Google, A beatiful mind
I think I've snapped from all the loonie news (Score:5, Insightful)
(Last Journal: Friday January 19 2007, @04:54PM)
Yahoo Reverses Allah Ban
I think I've finally snapped from all the loonie news lately. My first thought was: "What!? Now you are required to have 'Allah' in your name? That's even worse!"
--MarkusQ
And before you give me grief, in just the last few weeks:
Calling your bluff (Score:4, Informative)
(Last Journal: Friday January 19 2007, @04:54PM)
Ah yes. You must be one of those people who has "conclusive proof" that the moon landing was faked. Ofcourse, yor evidence is almost non-existant, and whenever anyone challanges whatever little evidence you DO have, you simply ignore them and continue saying that your point of view "has been proven". Right?
Kind of ironic, coming from somebody that is objecting to the contents of a speech he didn't hear and can't find a transcript of, isn't it? But I'll bite.
My claim, which you are objecting to:
My proof (or at least a sampling thereof--there's lots more):
There is, of course, a lot more where that came from.
Now, can you please back up your claim that Gore told the Arabs to attack us?
--MarkusQ
Well, NOW it is. (Score:4, Insightful)
(Last Journal: Thursday April 12 2007, @04:02PM)
Well, now it probably is.
Leave it to Slashdot to fan the insignificant into flaming stupidity.
Really (Score:2)
(http://godgab.org/)
Yahoo! backpeddling... (Score:2)
(http://upt.org/lane)
Now that this hit slashdot, that will change.
Good thing yahoo not in Iraq (Score:1)
(http://www.users.qwest.net/~waffleck-asch/ | Last Journal: Wednesday November 07, @04:46PM)
oh, wait, they are.
whatever.
Good thing The Flying Spaghetti Monster [flyingspag...onster.org] doesn't care if you use his/her/its name
Ban Not fair in the first place (Score:1, Interesting)
(http://jrmcferren.isa-geek.net/ | Last Journal: Sunday March 05 2006, @06:46AM)
In other words, (Score:1)
(http://notoroge.trap17.com/)
Not a rant about U.S.A. in general; simply a rant about people that take P.C.-ness too far, to the -ironically- point beyond the level of being "Politically Correct".
P.S: I Just finished watching Kenneth Brahnag's(sp?) version of Hamlet, and the little security image at the bottom of the page says "Hamlet", how weird is that!?
Look at my screen name (Score:3, Insightful)
With them, you post a cartoon and next thing you know all hell breaks lose and there's a bounty on your life.
'Allah' targetted for abuse. I have evidence. (Score:1)
O RLY?!?!
Hate doesn't need promoting (Score:2)
(http://rtfm.insomnia.org/~qg/ | Last Journal: Wednesday November 16 2005, @07:11AM)
Allah=God, hate who ?? (Score:4, Informative)
I'd just like to say... (Score:2, Insightful)
(http://www.matthewwilkes.co.uk/)
What a coincidence! (Score:2)
(Last Journal: Monday February 13 2006, @07:11PM)
Wow! It stopped being that the day after the complaints!? What a coincidence!
C|Net reversed something as well ... (Score:2)
(http://127.0.0.1/)
I think they meant that the ruling came too early for the rest of the Callahans, who will be denied the opportunity to be made aware that Yahoo sucks, and discover G-Mail as a result. Linda Callahan has a bit of the luck of the Irish going for her on this one. She narrowly escaped a bullet
I've had this problem before with my real name (Score:1)
(http://www.errantys.com/)
Apparently the word 'ass' in the middle of my name made it invalid. Sort of pathetic.
"promoting hatred" -- usually that's not the case (Score:2, Insightful)
(http://www.monkey.org/~timothy/ | Last Journal: Monday November 12, @06:11AM)
There are people who want to "promote hatred" in the world, no doubt. The organizers of the KKK (especially present-day ones; the originals might get at least some product-of-their-times credit), recruiters for angry, retributionist separatists of any stripe, etc, qualify as intending to promote hatred. But that's a pretty harsh and specific charge, and not everyone will qualify (to our great benefit).
A lot of other people though, no matter how repugnant their views might be to you or me, have no interest in spreading emnity, even if you think their views are offensive, insenstive, chauvenistic, etc; not all negative opinions are *hatred* -- not even mocking or otherwise depracting opinions. Some rivalries are genuine but often friendly, and are the basis of a paradoxical bond based on a continuing series of mutual competition (Aussies / New Zealanders); some are primarily political -- or socio-political / social-religio-political / whatever (like Greek v. Cypriot student groups on U.S. campuses arguing the proper government of Cyprus), where opinions are strong, contentious and incompatible, but not necessarily resulting in the personal emotion of hatred; some are true, real-deal group HATRED. And of course, there are the various "pride" groups representing skin tones light or dark, some of which seem outward-directed ("we don't like *them*!") and some more inward-directed ("We like *us*!), and into which some people read hatred just in their existence, even if roundly denied.
It's especially hard to evaluate intent when all you've got to go on is something as ambiguous as an email address, chosen often on the spur of the moment and for reasons that could include memorability, humor (which might be obscure or contrarian), uniqueness (jsmith876548 is no fun), obscurity (so as to provide a useful gap between online and real-life names), which way the wind is blowing, etc.
Some email addresses might also be taken by other than the "side" that a glance might suggest, too -- in the same way that some web sites with names that sound like those of outwardly, frankly racist groups are instead parked by folks who'd rather sit on them or redirect to anti-racist sites instead.
Anyhow -- back to procrastinating!
timothy
Better idea: don't ban anything! (Score:2)
(http://www.pleasantonplayhouse.com/)
Yeah right. (Score:2)
Yeah, how long does it take GNAAllah to get that ban reinstated?
Or allahMyAss could do it as well?
Or AllahLovesIsrael.
(I didn't reserve any of those but someone will probably.)
Scunthorpe (Score:1)
Re:Yeah, but... (Score:2, Funny)
I hear they are releasing Gislam beta with full text searching of the Gooran next week to try to solve yet another problem.
Re:Who didn't see this coming? (Score:1)
(http://www.metlin.org/ | Last Journal: Friday July 20, @01:58PM)
-hats off-
MOD PARENT UP! (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Finnaly (Score:2)
(Last Journal: Wednesday July 26 2006, @04:50AM)
Allah bailar la bamba
Para bailar la bamba
Se necesita una poca de gracia
a Una poca de gracia para mi para ti
ya Arriba y arriba
ay arriba y arriba por ti sere
Por ti sere
Por ti sere
Yo no soy marinero
Yo no soy marinero
Soy capitana
Soy capitana
Soy capitana
Bamba la bamba
Bamba la bamba
Bamba la bamba
Para bailar la bamba
Para bailar la bamba
Se necesito una poca de gracia
a Una poca de gracia para mi para ti
ya Arriba y arriba
Para bailar la bamba
Para bailar la bamba
Se necesito una poca de gracia
a Una poca de gracia para mi para ti
ya Arriba y arriba
ay arriba y arriba por ti sere
Por ti sere
Bamba la bamba
Bamba la bamba
Bamba la bamba
Re:Guess this is as relevant as it's ever going to (Score:1)
Have some more Karma (Score:2)
(Last Journal: Wednesday July 26 2006, @04:50AM)
Re:Finnaly (Score:1)
Re:front paeg news!!!! What a Win for democracy! (Score:2)
(http://coathangrrr.blogspot.com/ | Last Journal: Monday December 05 2005, @11:08PM)
Scroll back up through the thread here and read some of the comments.
I'll give you some time...
OK, now count the number of dirty comments about muslims and Allah.
Tehn count the number of comments that are "pro-Islam"(that meaning, of course, that they say that not all muslims are riotous and violent)
Now notice, other than the fact that the vast majority, if not all, of "pro-Islam" comments are in response to people generalizing about how all muslims are violent, that there are far, far more negative comments about Islam.
Re:Fuck Allah (Score:1, Flamebait)
(http://www.angelfire...epublican/index.blog | Last Journal: Thursday July 27 2006, @12:00AM)
Or I suppose, that if everything belongs to Allah and YOU are being an ass, someone could comply with your request by raping you.
LK
Isn't it funny (Score:1)
Re:So.... (Score:1)
If you are going to consider something as topical and timely as the recent Muslim backlash 'flamebait', then what is available for discussion-talking about how teh M$ sux0rs?