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Facebook Takes Down Official Page for the French Town of Bitche

posted by martyb on Wednesday April 14 2021, @01:25AM   Printer-friendly
from the life's-a-Bitche-sometimes dept.

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Runaway1956:

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?

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 14 2021, @03:10AM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 14 2021, @03:10AM (#1137268)

    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

    by isostatic (365) on Wednesday April 14 2021, @10:03AM (#1137371) Journal

    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)

    by shortscreen (2252) on Wednesday April 14 2021, @12:03PM (#1137394) Journal

    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

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 14 2021, @12:21PM (#1137405)
      That’s what I don’t understand. News organization are on Facebook and complain that Facebook is taking revenge away from them. And a Facebook page is only a scroll away from the competition, which might be some stupidity about a cat.