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The internet has been like this forever. In the 90s I was banned from hotmail for having an inappropriate email address because my last name is Cummings. No rec
by stult 1y ago
The internet has been like this forever. In the 90s I was banned from hotmail for having an inappropriate email address because my last name is Cummings. No recourse for some idiotic regex filter.
- freedomben 1y agoIndeed, I got my Hotmail suspended because of something not terribly different. Thank God in those days not every account insisted on 2fa through email
- _9ptr 1y agoI know that feel, I'm Hugh Mongous.
- cindyllm 1y ago[dead]
- kstrauser 1y agoClbuttic.
- msm_ 1y agoI guess the only solution is to self-host. I've even been migrating my dedicated server to a homelab I'm slowly building. But that's a very time-consuming option, has a high chance of breakage, and not even available for 99.5% of people. And most people don't wants to spend hours and hours of private time to babysit own email server, which is understandable. Finally, it's not free. I wonder what would have to happen for people to become more digitally sovereign, but I doubt it'll ever happen. If anything, we're going in the other direction.
- walrus01 1y agoWhat happens if your last name is Cummings and your home address is in Penistone, South Yorkshire, England? Or perhaps in the quaint fishing town of Dildo, Newfoundland.
- quickthrowman 1y agoDon’t forget about Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, England!
- Anarch157a 1y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pussy,_Savoie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pussy,_Savoie
- mimentum 1y agoHi Richard
- FireBeyond 1y agoAhh, it's called the Scunthorpe problem! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem
- johnisgood 1y ago> The problem arises since computers can easily identify strings of text within a document, but interpreting words of this kind requires considerable ability to interpret a wide range of contexts, possibly across many cultures, which is an extremely difficult task. Humans have issues with such tasks, too, apparently. Hence their push to change IT terminology, e.g. master -> main git branch.