I served with a guy named Hung Wang. He complained that Microsoft thought it was an obscene name and couldn't make it his Xbox Live gamertag.
In all fairness, that’s probably what the other folks on XBox would think.
Facebook Messenger blocks messages containing “di.wang”
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#52Profanity filter running amok? See the old https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem
Ages ago, I remember some corporate mail server (Corel?) blocking some emails which were discussing Microsoft Exchange. They were blocking "sexchange" and "msexchange" matched.
A very smart and senior engineer, whom I greatly respect, was researching DNS owners via whois and told me: “the guy who registered “therapist dot com” is the same guy who registered “the rapist dot com.”
We never stopped teasing him about that.