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Research: Online Oddities and Atrocities Museum: BlackPlanet.com Bans Woman with "Unacceptable" Name

BlackPlanet.com, a portal dealing with African-American topics, uses filtering software to prevent registration of names such as Hancock, because of the use of the word "cock", although "penis" is permitted.

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Additional Resources

A Debate on Filtering: An email debate between Omar Wasow of BlackPlanet.com and Alan Brown of the Digital Freedom Network, August 30, 2000.
Filtering Follies: An essay on the BlackPlanet.com incident and other problems with filtering software, Digital Freedom Network, August 25, 2000.
Web Site Bans Woman with "Unacceptable" Name: The original article about Sherril Babcock's registration problems with BlackPlanet.com, Digital Freedom Network, August 18, 2000.

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