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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.
- AllNewTypeFace ( @AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space ) 23•9 days ago
Coulsdon is the new Scunthorpe, it seems
- tal ( @tal@lemmy.today ) English6•9 days ago
Fucking, Austria eventually gave in:
https://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 ( @AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space ) 4•9 days ago
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 ( @beefbot@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 1•8 days ago
(Don’t) Look Around You
- masterofn001 ( @masterofn001@lemmy.ca ) 7•9 days ago
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 ( @Dima@lemmy.one ) 2•8 days ago
One example: Butts
52.4054875, -1.5226096
https://maps.app.goo.gl/vGWxfASV2E5HheBR8- masterofn001 ( @masterofn001@lemmy.ca ) 3•8 days ago
I plotted fun trip once.
I’ll see if I still have the screenshot…
From Slut, Sweden to Twatt, UK
- scrchngwsl ( @scrchngwsl@feddit.uk ) English3•8 days ago
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?
- I Cast Fist ( @ICastFist@programming.dev ) 3•8 days ago
It’s facebook, that’s entirely possible.
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