I was recently blocked for 24 hours from Facebook for testing the phrase “fucking British” in the context of colonial history. Note that I was testing it after

I was recently blocked for 24 hours from Facebook for testing the phrase “fucking British” in the context of colonial history. Note that I was testing it after another poster asked if their own comment saying the same thing had been censored. After having my test comment removed, I confirmed that “okay, it seems automated” which was itself flagged as being hate speech somehow, and my ban instated immediately. My contacts proceeded to discuss ways to get around the filter (use idioms, odd characters, Unicode) and I was immediately reminded of how people get around Chinese censorship.