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One of the more Orwellian moments I've experienced on Facebook happened when it didn't allow me to send an image link to my sister in a private chat because the
by todayiamme 10y ago
One of the more Orwellian moments I've experienced on Facebook happened when it didn't allow me to send an image link to my sister in a private chat because the string had sex written in it.
We're both adults and have been using Messenger to talk to each other every day for a few years now, but nope Facebook wouldn't relent. It even froze my ability to message her from my smartphone app for a short amount of time.
This amuses me more than it annoys me, because someone at Facebook decided that it's a good idea for a messaging product to censor private conversations between adults. What on Earth led them to believe that my messaging app should be my nanny?
EDIT: Here's a screenshot of the dialog: http://oi65.tinypic.com/33wt9br.jpg http://oi65.tinypic.com/33wt9br.jpg
- MaxfordAndSons 10y agoThat's bonkers. When was this, and what country or countries were you both in? FWIW though, it's also possible she unknowingly had some sort of anti-obscenity filter turned on in her settings.
- todayiamme 10y agoShe's an American citizen and was in the US at the time. I was in Cambodia. Nope, pretty sure that wasn't the case. We aren't aware of any such setting. What's really funny is that the context wasn't sexual at all. It was a medical conversation with a family member. I'd gotten the HPV vaccine earlier in the day and we were talking about it. The image in question was from an online medical resource, and it didn't flag the image itself as I ended up sharing it directly with her anyway. I think it got flagged because the string had the letters sex in it. Or, if someone else had flagged it for some reason elsewhere... Who knows?
- therealmarv 10y agoyep, Facebook messenger censors! It also does not allow you to send links e.g. to warez sites... I'm sure it censors even more stuff.