> given that there are literally streets with it on[1] I doubt its a bannable offense. plus, you'd expect that to be filtered out at the very start. Plus if they adhere to their escalations then it wouldn't result in a ban.
Here in Atlanta, Georgia USA they're already changing street names that are deemed offensive [1]. Sometimes these are family names that were made famous by a historical figure tied to a "bad" thing but sometimes it's an English phrase where the implications are bad. I would be wary of general purpose words like Kaiser that make people think of "bad" things as those are also open to scrutiny.
In that article the streets being renamed are "Confederate <Something>". Clearly named after the Confederacy itself and not after people. Though they talk about possibly renaming streets named after people like Robert E. Lee or Nathan Bedford Forrest (founder of the KKK) later.
And an important clarification. To quote you:
> Sometimes these are family names that were made famous by a historical figure tied to a "bad" thing
These aren't streets that happened to share a name with these men, these were streets named for these men. The former (what you imply) is far less defensible (I'd say indefensible in general), but is not what is being discussed in your article. If you have another source where some non-Robert E. Lee named street is being renamed because it has the name "Lee" that would be a better example of what you're talking about.
Of course when the history of a name can be directly attributed to a bad person then it will be attacked but what happens when the history is less clear? Will assumptions be made?
Probably, but people can at least defend it, "This is named after John Lee, the 3rd mayor of the town from 1784. It is not named after Robert E. Lee and we can show you the street on a town map from before Robert E. Lee was even born." But your argument would still be better if you could show an example of that kind of issue, and not a hypothetical about it. Your article did not demonstrate what you are talking about here.
Here in Atlanta, Georgia USA they're already changing street names that are deemed offensive [1]. Sometimes these are family names that were made famous by a historical figure tied to a "bad" thing but sometimes it's an English phrase where the implications are bad. I would be wary of general purpose words like Kaiser that make people think of "bad" things as those are also open to scrutiny.
[1] - https://www.npr.org/2018/10/04/648290022/atlantas-mayor-sign...