> Your username is Kaiser. That could be a bannable offense.
Why? Kaiser is a royal title and widely used family name from the German sphere of culture. Who could be legitimated offended by this alone?
Why? Kaiser is a royal title and widely used family name from the German sphere of culture. Who could be legitimated offended by this alone?
Your name / title / country name could be safe in your own country but seem offensive to someone with an international bias.
Similarly, there are also countries that are "offensive" from a Chinese point of view.
This journalist cannot even mention the name "Taiwan" and "country" in the same sentence without this WHO guy (from Canada!) treating her like pariah.
This isn't the same as the sheer ignorance it takes to assume that countries Nigeria, Montenegro, and Niger are connected to the US's issues with race and are therefore offensive. A US diplomat isn't going to sanction you for recognising Nigeria as a country. I'm also unaware of what such a person would call these countries instead.
https://qz.com/1911573/virtual-youtubers-suspended-after-cal...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/26/john-cena-very...
https://www.forbes.com/sites/ralphjennings/2018/01/17/corpor...
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-31/nasa-is-t...
"Kaiser" is a reference to the German Reich, and references to Nazism are not welcome in this community.
I mean, if we're going to make up reasons out of whole cloth, any name is fair game.
Another, better example: Normally, where you work is not a secret. It is something that most people would tell strangers if asked about.
Now, say you are testing your "market value" by sending out job applications. Now suddenly you may not want to disclose where you work.
This is actually not a contrived example, a friend of mine was let go because the HR guys handling one of his applications knew somebody from his current company, word got around and his current management deemed the risk of him "stealing work secrets" too high. So they put him on paid leave and he never entered that facility again.
Enraged white Americans had a fit over this because in some (not all!) parts of America this is (or used to be) a racial slur. Many other Americans on the mailing list never even heard it used as a racial slur.
The guy was forced to rename the library.
Do you want to bet that whatever you say, or whatever you call yourself won't be a reason to get you banned? Do you want to tie an email address to the likelihood of this happening?
How would this scenario be any different.