Sorry Australia, This Is The Real Facebook Story

[rowanwitch]

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/14078422/facebook-censor-online-faggots-peas-black-country/www

The Americans must think the black country have very strange eating habits

[jno]

I have a wee bit of sympathy for FB here. The F word is most commonly used in the USA as a homophobic insult, hence the palaver about Fairytale of New York. So in this case I think they're trying to do the right thing. Maybe they can come up with some algorithm that exempts Black Country FBers.

[Mozz71]

Mountains and molehills. I expect Facebook have an automatic flagging up of certain words, and "faggots" came up. They realised their mistake and uncensored it. Is there really a story here? It seems more like the media just looking for anything they can sensationalise.

[jno]

it's just a funny story, Mozz, like newsreaders garbling Jeremy Hunt's name. No great significance in the wider scheme of things.

[Togo]

After eating, you just try smoking a fag.

[douglas9401]

'Fury'

Right then.

[Spicerack]

Yume have.

[jno]

///the Dudley South Tory even invited Facebook's billionaire boss Mark Zuckerberg to come and sample the local delicacy "next time you are in Brierley Hill"///

that's a pretty vile suggestion, douglas. No wonder tempers are running high.

[AuntPollyGrey]

The sad thing here is people actually subscribe to a FB page about meatballs...good grief do they post thier favourite pics? lol!

[Zacs-Master]

You do realise that anything which can be described as ‘woke’ is immediately jumped upon by the press (especially the gutter press)?

[New Judge]

//Is there really a story here?//

I think so. Here we have a "social media" site censoring a perfectly acceptable word that has been misappropriated. I don't know if AB censors the word faggot. We'll see.

[New Judge]

Seems not. Quite right too.

[Jackdaw33]

I wonder if FB still censor the word 'shag'.

[Jackdaw33]

Nope, all is well.

[Mamyalynne]

I haven't had any carpet laid recently, I'll check FB when I do.

[Hopkirk]

I'm not surprised that there is a Facebook page for faggots and peas.

At my son's university there was a houmous society. I would have joined, if I was a student there.

[archibaldy]

Didn't we have this 2 months ago when the BBC censored Fairytale of New York for the same thing.

[Mamyalynne]

The Americans would have fun with a local delicacy here (yes,I know it has a forces connection too) - Babies' Heads.

Yum.

[Hopkirk]

The Yanks would be amazed if they heard that sometimes a Brit will ask another if he can bum a fag.

[Mozz71]

Judge- it's a word that could cause offense if inappropriately used. If FB had doubled down on the ban, I could understand the fuss, but they realised their mistake and reversed the decision. No foul from what I can see.

I wonder if there is a FB group of flood barrier fanatics? I bet those folk really love their dykes.

[jno]

no need, Mozz, the word's much less of an insult and often self-applied

https://dykesonbikeslondon.uk/