{"id":8866,"date":"2010-05-29T19:19:22","date_gmt":"2010-05-29T23:19:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=8866"},"modified":"2010-05-29T19:19:22","modified_gmt":"2010-05-29T23:19:22","slug":"on-yahoo-islam-is-a-forbidden-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/on-yahoo-islam-is-a-forbidden-word\/","title":{"rendered":"On Yahoo, Islam is a forbidden word"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yahoo News allows the public to make comments on its news articles.<\/p>\n<p>The funny thing is, @#$% is substituted for &#8220;Islam&#8221; in every comment. For example, in comment 19 <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/mcclatchy\/20100528\/wl_mcclatchy\/3519577#mwpphu-container\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, I entered:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Why is Islam being changed into special characters and Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism and Taoism\u00a0 are not?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What was posted was:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Why is @#$% being changed into special characters and Christianity,  Buddhism, Hinduism and Taoism    are not?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Surely this could not be another example of a pusillanimous Western technology company, could it? It must be a variant of the infamous <a href=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=7021\" target=\"_blank\">Google &#8220;bug&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yahoo News allows the public to make comments on its news articles. The funny thing is, @#$% is substituted for &#8220;Islam&#8221; in every comment. For example, in comment 19 here, I entered: Why is Islam being changed into special characters &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/on-yahoo-islam-is-a-forbidden-word\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[189],"tags":[2092,2178,1651],"class_list":["post-8866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islam","tag-computers","tag-islam","tag-yahoo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}