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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: 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.