CouLSDon gets cancelled by Facebook’s algorithm police (insidecroydon.com)
from alyaza@beehaw.org to technology@beehaw.org on 12 Nov 18:49
https://beehaw.org/post/17027060

Businesses, community groups, arts organisations and residents in a thriving town on the Croydon-Surrey border are in uproar because the automatic systems employed to police social media have silenced them on one of the world’s biggest digital platforms – all because Coulsdon has the letters L, S and D in its name.

Residents’ associations and businesses with “Coulsdon” in their titles have found themselves “cancelled”, with posts being removed from Facebook and warnings issued as to their future conduct under a set of rules so vague that any post, however innocent, might fall foul of them.

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AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space on 12 Nov 19:02 next collapse

Coulsdon is the new Scunthorpe, it seems

tal@lemmy.today on 12 Nov 21:46 next collapse

Fucking, Austria eventually gave in:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fugging,_Upper_Austria

Despite a population of only 106 in 2020, the village has drawn attention in the English-speaking world for its former name, which was spelled the same as an inflected form of the vulgar English-language word “fuck”.[1][2] Its road signs were a popular visitor attraction and were often stolen by souvenir-hunting vandals until 2005, when they were modified to be theft-resistant. A campaign to change the village’s name to Fugging was rejected in 2004 but succeeded in late 2020.[3][4]

AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space on 12 Nov 22:44 collapse

The village on Lunt near Liverpool considered changing its name to “Launt”, because vandals kept adding a top stroke to the L in signs.

beefbot@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 13 Nov 16:35 collapse

(Don’t) Look Around You

masterofn001@lemmy.ca on 12 Nov 22:28 next collapse

Next up: Facebook bans half the streets and towns in the UK

Dick place

Assloss rd

Semicock rd

Butthole lane

Twatt

Dicks mount

Cock pond

Clitterhouse

Etc

Dima@lemmy.one on 13 Nov 14:20 collapse

One example: Butts
52.4054875, -1.5226096
maps.app.goo.gl/vGWxfASV2E5HheBR8

masterofn001@lemmy.ca on 13 Nov 15:14 collapse

I plotted fun trip once.

I’ll see if I still have the screenshot…

From Slut, Sweden to Twatt, UK

<img alt="" src="https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/aa3a7930-57b6-415f-b3a1-1822b6272c62.png">

<img alt="" src="https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/57fa65d0-9594-46fd-99a1-eaf030242d27.png">

scrchngwsl@feddit.uk on 13 Nov 11:34 collapse

It doesn’t actually give any examples of removed posts or screenshots of the reasons why? Surely it can’t just be because a town name happens to contain “lsd” in the middle of it?

ICastFist@programming.dev on 13 Nov 12:02 next collapse

It’s facebook, that’s entirely possible.

alyaza@beehaw.org on 13 Nov 16:14 collapse

Surely it can’t just be because a town name happens to contain “lsd” in the middle of it?

Facebook is a remarkably bad website so i think you’d be quite surprised at how stuck in the past they are over there