Facebook Running Aggressive and Confusing Censorship
After
Facebook finally managed to solve the bug leading to ban of the word
“Palestinian” from page titles, it suddenly appeared to be not their
only trouble. The news is that now people can’t use the last name "Arab"
for opening accounts, because the system prevents them from doing so.
Recently, Professor Brynen from the Palestinian Refugee ResearchNet made
an attempt to create a Facebook page for his group. Surprisingly, he
found himself unable to do so, because the system prevented him from it
by a rogue moderating process banning the word "Palestinian" from being
used in page titles. After being notified about the trouble, Facebook
fixed it and even apologized to Rex Brynen, explaining that they use an
automated system, which...