Yahoo News allows the public to make comments on its news articles.

The funny thing is, @#$% is substituted for “Islam” in every comment. For example, in comment 19 here, I entered:

Why is Islam being changed into special characters and Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism and Taoism  are not?

What was posted was:

Why is @#$% being changed into special characters and Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism and Taoism are not?

Surely this could not be another example of a pusillanimous Western technology company, could it? It must be a variant of the infamous Google “bug”.