Going to far or is Yahoo making the right call? Speaking for myself, I am not someone who even uses Yahoo mail so my opinion is not on the chopping block today on this matter…

The policy reversal, announced Wednesday, came too late for Linda Callahan of Ashfield, Mass., who set up a Google Gmail account after being rejected by Yahoo Mail because of the presence of “allah” in her name, said her son, Ed Callahan.

“She was disgusted by (Yahoo’s policy) and saddened,” he said. “It was discriminatory. They disallowed ‘allah’ but allowed ‘jesus’ and ‘god,’ and I don’t think there is a rational explanation for that.”

The existence of the ban made a bit of a splash on the Web after it was reported in The Daily Hampshire Gazette on Friday and picked up by The Register and Slashdot this week. [Read the rest]

[tags]yahoo regulation,strict policy,political correctness,rejected gmail account,allah[/tags]