Original URL: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2000/09/04/cock_and_bull_story_gets/
Cock and bull story gets pricked
You couldn't make this stuff up, honest
Posted in Music and Media, 4th September 2000 15:42 GMT
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Sherril Babcock - the woman who was blocked from joining BlackPlanet.com because her named offended filtering software - has been accepted onto the Afro-American community site.
According to an update on the Digital Freedom Network's Web site (http://www.dfn.org/Voices/Americas/usa/blackplanet.htm), Ms Babcock finally backed down and bowed to demands to change her name.
To what did she change it, you ask?
Babpenis
"So much for reliable filtering technology," says DFN.
Quite so, quite so. ®
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