Hatem’s Diaries

There was discussion recently in the blogosphere about the fact that Yahoo is banning the word “Allah” from their registration system. This have been found by a blogger and slashdotted too, result : Yahoo! answered very fast and reviewed again their system. The problem is that Yahoo! banned “Allah”, but allowed words like Jesus, God … so I guess there was something wrong !

“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,” the statement said. “‘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.”

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