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Re:Facebook takes down (and restores) official page for Fren... by oblio on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @03:29AM (#26789155)
Yay... I hope they don't notice this small Austrian village: https://goo.gl/maps/x4i9N78MZY6KErca6

Will English speakers police the rest of the world, regardless of their language?

Re:Facebook takes down (and restores) official page for Fren... by gambiting on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @04:08AM (#26789455)
>>Will English speakers police the rest of the world, regardless of their language?

It's not English speakers, it's Americans specifically. Their corporations and their media have infiltrated the rest of the free world and are basically telling everyone what is and what isn't ok. People grow up watching American films and shows, accepting American morality and norms as "standard" even though frequently they absolutely aren't elsewhere. People use American social media from young age, letting American corporations censor and control the content they are seeing, again, even if the content shouldn't be controversial where they live.

Yes, I understand the hypocrisy of posting this on an American website. But I believe there is a large portion of non-American users here and it's important to remember that this is happening and should be fought against wherever possible.

Re:Facebook takes down (and restores) official page for Fren... by carlhjerpe on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @04:20AM (#26789540)
I must say that as a Swedish citizen this wasn't a problem until quite recently. We have the SJW movement here now too, but I've never throught about it coming from the US. A friend of mine stayed over in Canada for a couple of years, and he said everyone was very easily offended and politically correct.

The worst is when people intentionally misinterpret what you say to start an argument, kills me inside when someone pulls that trick. I remember a year or so ago I was seeing a VERY leftist girl that kept doing that. Ended up walking out on it all.

Re:Facebook takes down (and restores) official page for Fren... by 4oh9do on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @03:35AM (#26789209)
> Will English speakers police the rest of the world, regardless of their language?

As long as the rest of the world willingly lets them, yes.

> This is not the first time Bitche has been caught up in a censorship crossfire. In 1881, U.S. Ambassador to France Levi Parsons Morton took issue with the location of the American embassy on the Place de Bitche in Paris, named in honor of the town's wartime effort. Morton, embarrassed by the embassy's letterhead, asked Parisian authorities to rename the square — they obliged, changing it to Place des États-Unis.

Re:Facebook takes down (and restores) official page for Fren... by lqet on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @03:31AM (#26789174)
They recently renamed the village. It's Fugging now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fugging,_Upper_Austria#Name_ch...

Re:Facebook takes down (and restores) official page for Fren... by 174SIGSEGV on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @03:42AM (#26789265)
As if that sounds any better in English. It's probably better just to ignore us English speakers anyway. Anyway, apparently Oberfucking and Unterfucking still exist?
Re:Facebook takes down (and restores) official page for Fren... by oblio on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @03:40AM (#26789246)
This is super ridiculous :-))

Edit: why is this down voted? It IS ridiculous! ...

Re:Facebook takes down (and restores) official page for Fren... by progfix on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @04:13AM (#26789502)
Idiot people harrassing the town are, not the people renaming it.
Re:Facebook takes down (and restores) official page for Fren... by blindluke on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @03:31AM (#26789175)
This small Austrian village already changed the name to Fugging. Someone did notice.
Re:Facebook takes down (and restores) official page for Fren... by raverbashing on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @03:51AM (#26789325)
> Will English speakers police the rest of the world, regardless of their language?

Especially the native ones being the most ignorant of other languages (and often of their own)?

Cultural/linguistic diversity is important, but people are more worried about the low-hanging (centered on their Anglo culture) fruit.

Re:Facebook takes down (and restores) official page for Fren... by fastball on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @04:04AM (#26789437)
Policing is pretty strong.