![]() ![]() I was worried Facebook had some kind of robot that crawled through statuses and comments in search of offensive keywords, but according to a representative for the site, no such thing exists. I literally couldn’t afford to lose Facebook privileges for a month-I manage VICE’s social media accounts on the weekend-so I reached out to Facebook to find out what the fuck was going on. A friend commented saying someone would flag me for posting it, and I replied, “I’M A PERMANENTLY FLAGGED FAGGOT.” The next morning, Facebook blocked me for 30 days. This weekend I slipped, a bit ironically, after I posted a New York Times article about trigger warnings on my wall to criticize oversensitive college kids. I felt uncomfortable doing this-why should I have to censor myself?-but since I had few other options, I decided to avoid writing F-A-G-G-O-T. My friend Pearl recommended I change the Gs to 9s the way her black friends write “ni99a” on Facebook. When they let me post comments again the first week of May, I looked for ways to say the F-word without getting blocked again. ![]() “You post HIV ads on my timeline because I’m gay, which is, you know, offensive, but you won’t let me say faggot, which is gay men’s word to use. “I am a gay man, yet you have blocked me from saying faggot,” I wrote. Facebook never explains how long they will block someone, so I messaged the site to explain my situation and appeal the decision.
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