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6-year-old girl denied passport because she’s named after ‘Game of Thrones’ character(nypost.com)

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Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee
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The Passport Office reportedly later called Lucy to apologize for the error.

They screwed up, and have admitted they screwed up. Did nobody read the article?

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I got half way before the pop-ups became too much.

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Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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Holy shit you weren’t kidding. And I’m on Firefox Focus behind a PiHole with a multi-million blocklist.

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Fair enough.

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