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Facebook takes down official page for the French town of Bitche:
In an unusual turn of events, the Facebook page for Bitche, a small town in northeastern Moselle, France, was taken down on March 19, as Zuck's offensive verbiage police pulled the town's name into the social platform's unusually stringent dragnet.
According to Politico.eu, the Monday takedown temporarily forced Valérie Degouy, the town's communications administrator, to generate a new page labeled after the area postal code, Mairie 57230.
[...] "I already had problems when I created the town's Facebook page. I could not enter the word Bitche; it was impossible," she said. "I had to create a page that I had called Ville fortifiée, and change it afterwards, in the description, to say that it was the official page of the town of Bitche and point out at the same time, the username was Ville de Bitche. At that time in 2016, it was allowed."
[...] At long last, Facebook restored the original page on Tuesday, almost a month later. The mayor, Benoît Kieffer, said in a Facebook post, translated by the Guardian: "The name of our town seems to suffer from a bad interpretation ... the most astonishing thing is that Facebook took so long to correct this."
What overly-aggressive filter blocks have you encountered?
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Wednesday April 14 2021, @02:05AM (1 child)
Is there another kind?
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday April 14 2021, @07:58AM
If my memory serve, yes, TMB's filters for "Dick Niggers" - those were ineffective.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0
(Score: -1, Informative) by melyan on Wednesday April 14 2021, @02:06AM (4 children)
Facebook took down your mom three nights ago.
(Score: 0, Offtopic) by melyan on Wednesday April 14 2021, @02:14AM (1 child)
informative? That you khallow?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 14 2021, @02:41AM
Not khallow, just someone that modded by mistake, happens all the time. Here, I corrected it for you.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 14 2021, @02:18AM
Hah, I beat Facebook by a week - man, does she go downtown, bitche!
(Score: 2) by black6host on Wednesday April 14 2021, @03:14AM
There are others here bored of that subject that think an additional moderation of informative might be just what this thread needs!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 14 2021, @02:19AM
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Rosco P. Coltrane on Wednesday April 14 2021, @02:28AM (7 children)
It not unusual and it's nothing new [wikipedia.org]. It's been that way since site administrators felt it appropriate to bake political correctness in automated computer forms. And the problem is made worse by the fact that support is also automated - meaning when email them to explain to a real human being that yes, your city's name really is Bitche and you're not a whorehouse, all you get back is boilerplate on company policies and values.
Not to mention, Facebook seems to assume "bitch" means anything in French - which shows how crass and US-centric it is. I bet you could register an account with "pute" in it and be fine.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Arik on Wednesday April 14 2021, @02:41AM (2 children)
Welcome to hell. Nice to see you finally starting to become aware.
For those catching up; everything good humans do is immediately taken over and used for evil. More at 9.
Or not. Probably not. Don't sit up waiting for 9.
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 2, Touché) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday April 14 2021, @04:11AM (1 child)
Not immediately. Porn is usually first. Eventually though, guaranteed.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday April 14 2021, @08:04AM
FYI: making porn of a good thing is just making the thing better.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 14 2021, @05:57AM (1 child)
Like ComPUTEr.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 14 2021, @12:12PM
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 14 2021, @07:59AM
At least soylent is not auto-replacing fucking words... oh wait....
(Score: 2) by driverless on Wednesday April 14 2021, @10:58AM
Meh, all they have to do is call it by it's proper name, Bitsch, a part of Reichsland Elsaß-Lothringen, and then Fecebook will have no problems with it.
(Score: 4, Funny) by SomeGuy on Wednesday April 14 2021, @02:36AM (3 children)
From now on the word "Facebook" is a swear word. It roughly means getting raped bloody while enjoying it. The word is said with an impact heavier than "Fuck" or certain slurs that are too dangerous to even hint at.
Example usage: Consumertards love Facebook.
Spread it, use it, and watch it censor itself. Problem solved.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 14 2021, @02:44AM
Belgium man, Belgium.
(Score: 2) by Beryllium Sphere (r) on Wednesday April 14 2021, @03:18AM (1 child)
Elayne Boosler suggested that we've lost the impact of current bad words through overuse, and we should switch to things that still have emotional resonance. She suggested that when someone cuts you off in traffic you could yell "Audit you!".
I like your suggestion and may well use "Facebook yourself" if I find the occasion.
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Wednesday April 14 2021, @09:13AM
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 14 2021, @02:37AM (1 child)
What about the Facebook page dedicated to Bitchcraft?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 14 2021, @02:39AM
This English company seems to get past the filters--
https://en-gb.facebook.com/pg/AbingdonKingDickTools/posts/ [facebook.com]
(Score: 3, Insightful) by jb on Wednesday April 14 2021, @02:39AM (2 children)
...and will continue to do so, so long as there remains anyone in the world stupid (or evil) enough to think that censorship (or even Bowdlerisation) can ever be justified.
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Wednesday April 14 2021, @10:23AM (1 child)
TL;DR - having leather-clad blokes pissing on each other atop floats in the Pride rally might not be such positive societal progress as apparently everyone thought at the time.
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 14 2021, @12:18PM
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 14 2021, @03:10AM (3 children)
They should have just learned English when the English kings were bumbling around the countryside, failing to conquer France, or Flanders, or Brittany, or whatever.
(Score: 2) by isostatic on Wednesday April 14 2021, @10:03AM
It was a French King (William of Normandy) that conquered England. Later English kings were all about defending or attempting to regain historical lands.
Nowadays the rich are far more subtle than directly going to war to expand their wealth.
(Score: 2) by shortscreen on Wednesday April 14 2021, @12:03PM (1 child)
Or they could have put up their own website, if they even needed one, rather than giving fakeboob free promotion and data collection opportunities.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 14 2021, @12:21PM
(Score: 1, Flamebait) by aristarchus on Wednesday April 14 2021, @04:40AM (2 children)
How quickly conservative Soylentils forget! What about the Huge campaign to cancel the town in Austria?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fugging,_Upper_Austria [wikipedia.org]
Of course, it was the town itself, having to deal with having its signage stolen every couple of weeks by decadent Anglophone tourists and alt-right types with Greek surnames. Don't know what Farcebook did with the page of "Hans from Fucking", but I can imagine it was not pleasant.
(Score: 2) by progo on Wednesday April 14 2021, @09:58AM (1 child)
They should have doubled down on the original name. Find the people who design public telephones and ATMs and have them construct a sign that can't be stolen. Be proud of your name.
(Score: 2) by progo on Wednesday April 14 2021, @10:04AM
Oh. Derp. The Book of Knowledge says they did exactly that, before the changed the name.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by inertnet on Wednesday April 14 2021, @05:29AM
Facebook and the others are very good at erasing other people's traditions, while looking at the world with a purely American view.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 14 2021, @08:32AM
...any Son of the Bitche.
(Score: 2) by bradley13 on Wednesday April 14 2021, @09:15AM
Which is pronounced almost exactly the same as the English word. Our male dogs love visiting...
Everyone is somebody else's weirdo.