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CouLSDon gets cancelled by Facebook’s algorithm police (insidecroydon.com)
submitted 3 days ago by alyaza@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org
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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.

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[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 23 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Coulsdon is the new Scunthorpe, it seems

[–] tal 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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@leminal.space 4 points 3 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@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 days ago

(Don’t) Look Around You

[–] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I plotted fun trip once.

I'll see if I still have the screenshot...

From Slut, Sweden to Twatt, UK

[–] scrchngwsl@feddit.uk 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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?

[–] alyaza@beehaw.org 3 points 2 days ago

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

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 3 points 2 days ago

It's facebook, that's entirely possible.