I have just been admonished by Facebook and I must say it came as quite a surprise as I had thought my comment had been a fairly innocent if perhaps a little flippant but certainly not worthy of a full blown drumming down but algorithms are peculiar things.
My mistake happened when I had just finished a post on yet another protester being let off for what certainly seemed to me like a criminal act which left me wondering what on earth was happening with the modern world and the feeling that big brother is definitely watching me.
Someone had posted a photograph of an absolutely enormous black dog and was asking the question, what would you call him? Now, I have the feeling they were not asking the question to get serious answers as indeed the answer before mine was tiddles which I thought was moderately amusing and in keeping with the sort of comment requested, so rather foolishly as it turned out I posted the following with the n word in full.
N****r if I was after being controversial but as I don’t want to upset any of the modern children reading this I would call the dog Woke.
I was suddenly bombarded with the following which rather took me aback and I’m rather hoping I will not get myself in hot water again by repeating the post, although this time I have removed most of the offending letters from the word which I imagine caused the problem, of course in this day and age it might be the word woke, who knows?
Obviously algorithms can read the n word but are unable to read the rest of the sentence where I stated I would not call the dog that name as it may be considered too controversial in this day and age.
I was given the option to appeal which I did but was not offered the option to explain why, which sadly means one can not use the n word on Facebook in any concept at all, I wonder how many other words in the English language they have banned?
Your comment goes against our Community Standards on hate speech
No one else can see your comment.
We have these standards because we want discussions on Facebook to be respectful.
Repeatedly violating our Community Standards can cause further account restrictions.
If you think that we’ve made a mistake, you can disagree with the decision.
N****r if I was after being controversial but as I don’t want to upset any of the modern children reading this I would call the dog Woke.
Our standards on hate speech
We define hate speech as language that attacks people based on their:
- • Race, ethnicity, national origin or caste
- • Religious affiliation
- • Sexual orientation
- • Sex, gender or gender identity
- • Serious disabilities or diseases
This includes claims about coronavirus (COVID-19).
We sometimes allow things that we’d otherwise consider hate speech: for example when someone shares someone else’s hate speech to raise awareness about it or uses a word in reference to themselves.
The Diary of a Country Bumpkin 
Oh Dear!
Are you sure you weren’t testing the water to see what you could get away with?
Don’t try it as a comment here on WP. Peter made what we thought was an innocent comment on my blog, and for the past three months every comment he makes ends up in my Spam folder!
I have used the n word before in a post about Guy Gibson’s dog with no problem so wasn’t expecting a backlash this time. It’s getting to the point where the wokes have taken over, eventually we won’t be able to make a joke about anything which I find rather sad.
Free speech has been replaced with censorship. Peter’s comments were harmless jokes and in no way were they rude nor offensive.
Unfortunately modern people take offence at virtually everything, it’s coming to the point where you will not be allowed to tell a joke. Where five people can have an advertisement taken off when 60+ million of us have taken no offence and where people are thought to be guilty before they have been to court. This is not the world I grew up in and not one I particularly like, I dread to think what things will be like when the woke generation are actually running the world!
Oh, my goodness what a thought!
The thing that worries me most is that if I’m really unlucky I will still be alive when it happens!
Now that is a depressing thought. if you see what I mean! 🙂
Re the spam folder if you select his next message you can mark it as “not spam” and after that they come to your inbox. You may have done that already and I could be gaslighting or mansplaining or something like that!
I do that every time, Joe and even contacted WP, but apparently, he needs to have a good number of messages unspammed before they will stop automatically going into the spam folder. He comments on my posts every time but they still end up in the spam.
Why in hells name is everything in life nowadays so bloody complicated!!!
I wish I knew!
I have put together a parcel. It contains a very tasty fruit cake. I know you have sensitive teeth so be very careful when biting into it! Talking of fruitcakes………
😊
Apparently, dealing with Facebook is like dealing with a(ny other) mindless bureaucracy or stone wall). I say “Apparently” because I’ve never been on Facebook….but I’ve been on WP for over 12 years without being censored, despite repeatedly skewering Trump for being a poor excuse for a human being.
Sadly Facebook does seem to be getting more and more woke with every passing day.