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.

• 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?

The word or string “ass” may be replaced by “butt”, resulting in “clbuttic” for “classic”, “buttignment” for “assignment”, and “buttbuttinate” for “assassinate”.

Hehe… buttbuttinate

“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”.

Are there auto filters on Lemmy? Or is it all human reviewed?

Not planning on breaking anything. Just curious.