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Re:WeChat permanently closes account after user sets offensi... by SilasX on Friday June 05, 2020 @09:21AM (#23428168)
AT&T prohibits bad words, but it's not "the same thing" as in the story.

In the story, they gave him no warning that the password was prohibited, or why, and then permanently deleted the account with no recourse.

That's pretty different from "oh we don't allow that, pick another one", even if the latter is also annoying.

Re:WeChat permanently closes account after user sets offensi... by gitrog on Friday June 05, 2020 @11:30AM (#23429670)
> In the story, they gave him no warning that the password was prohibited, or why, and then permanently deleted the account with no recourse.

/She/ is also a well known journalist who could easily have had her account being monitored. Other people on that thread claimed that they changed their password to the same and nothing happened.

Re:WeChat permanently closes account after user sets offensi... by empath75 on Friday June 05, 2020 @10:05AM (#23428669)
AT&T prohibits commonly used passwords, which includes a lot of curse words.