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Lol if only they knew
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?
I remember the first time I found out about this, I mentioned it to a friend and they linked me to the profanity dictionary their company uses. While perusing through the list and having a laugh at some of the words that are filtered, like “cumtart”, “dickweasel”, “mastrabator”, and “wankerers” to name a few I realised that someone must have sat there thinking up some of these words to filter them. That must have been a fun afternoon.
I was that someone at a company in the early 2000s. I can confirm that it was, in fact, fun.
A coworker and I came up with every offensive word we could think of over a few days. Then, on Friday afternoon, we shared a 6 pack and got really inventive.
I’d imagine the list is still kicking around that company somewhere and hope it is our eternal legacy.
One early 80s morning the DJs read an alphabetical list of all the names for boobs. My god. It went all morning long.
Here’s 300. They had far more!
“Top Bollocks?” What a shiitake.
A friend pointed out to me that Microsoft Word wouldn’t underline swear words (because they are spelled correctly), but also wouldn’t suggest if they were misspelled.
I spent many a happy afternoon in Word VBA (it was a while ago) trying to get access to the list that it must keep!
- In June 2008, a news site run by the anti-LGBT lobby group American Family Association filtered an Associated Press article on sprinter Tyson Gay, replacing instances of “gay” with “homosexual”, thus rendering his name as “Tyson Homosexual”.
Why would they do this? Why replace a non-offensive word with a non-offensive synonym?
Gay used to be more of an insult, especially for a site like that, and my gay friends called themselves f’s. Different world.
The word or string “ass” may be replaced by “butt”, resulting in “clbuttic” for “classic”, “buttignment” for “assignment”, and “buttbuttinate” for “assassinate”.
Hehe… buttbuttinate
Proposal to have this replace un-aliving where possible.
(Both are dumb but one is at least funny)
I have a buttignmemt.
“Blacklisted from creation” sounds like a fantastic metal album
There’s a reverse. On most censored platforms, you can say “tit” or “tittty,” because “tit” is in a ton of words like “titan”.
That’s a nice set of titles you got there.
Are there auto filters on Lemmy? Or is it all human reviewed?
Not planning on breaking anything. Just curious.
Pretty sure lemmy.ml has a lot of words auto removed, so it’s by instance
