Facebook censors a photograph of a waterway for offensive comments it has received

17/09/2021 – 13:25 Updated: 09/17/2021 – 13:26

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Facebook has gone viral again thanks to a photograph in which you can see a kind of wooden path that plunges into the water. It is a dike, and it is a place much loved by the neighbors. That’s it one of the areas most frequented by vacationers and fishermen.

However, the name that has been assigned to this waterway seems to go in against Facebook’s community rules on hate speechAs The Sun reports, Facebook notes that the name is too ‘mischievous’, to such an extent that it has been classified as “hate speech.”

Steve Burgess, manager of the Love the Norfolk Broads (UK) Facebook page, said the affair started when a member shared that he had docked on the stretch leading to Cockshoot Broad. The social network system deleted any mention of it.

With other matters nothing is done

The publication was quickly suppressed due to the combination of “cock, shoot and dyke”, which in Spanish translates as penis, shooting and lesbian. Facebook has noted that this image refers to “violence and sexual content.” Steve, 61, has joked that the company “has added two and two and they have taken out 58.”

The man affirms that “it is ironic, because other things are seen that are really obscene, violent or sexual, and nothing is done”. Burgess argues that “people found it hilarious.” The businessman, who owns fishing and gift shops, says fishermen talk about places that normally bypass Facebook filters. Curiously, you have been banned from posting photos for 24 hours.

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