Yahoo unbanes IDs inclde word ALLAH
From the register:
Yahoo! has reversed its decision to stop people registering Yahoo! IDs which include the letters “allah”.
The Reg was contacted yesterday by a reader - Ed Callahan - who was having trouble registering his mum - Linda Callahan - for a Verizon email address - provided through a Yahoo! portal.
Yahoo officials say.
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.
As a developer i know that its hard to write an algo which can actually detect a suspicious term,i don’t know what algo used by yahoo but yes it is easy to make difference between Allah and Abdallah,and they could always cound no of characters before and after suspicious word and then check that if there is SPACe character,right after and before of suspicious word,they could detect it as actual Banned word else the suspicious word is part of a string,but yeah its not easy to detect hateAllahhate, and identify as a Blasphemious word.
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