Facebook Flags the Name of a Gardening Tool When Used in a Gardening Group

PJ Media ^ | 07/22/2021 | Bryan Preston

[DFG]

The Biden White House leans on Facebook to censor your speech online if what you say goes against what the Biden White House wants you to say.

This is not a conspiracy theory. It’s a fact. Let’s see how well Facebook handles the very sensitive topic of policing even non-political speech in a nation that’s built on the principle that speech must be free, and where people have wide varieties of interests that may fall outside Silicon Valley’s collective experiences.

Facebook flagged the word hoe in a gardening group.

Oh. No. They censored “hoe.”

Wait ’til they figure out what people do with certain emojis…

A group called WNY Gardeners has been repeatedly flagged by the social network for “violating community standards,” when its more than 7,500 members discussed the long-handled bladed implement, which is spelled with an “e,” unlike the offensive term.

When one member commented “Push pull hoe!” on a post about preferred weeding tools, Facebook sent a notification that read, “We reviewed this comment and found it goes against our standards for harassment and bullying,” a moderator said.

[TomServo]

Next up - Spade

[Lurkinanloomin]

My first thought was spade, kind of surprised they went after hoe.
It’s spelled different.
A hoe is a garden tool, a ho is a loose woman.

[moovova]

"Dumb White House plus dumb censors Using Facebook = a major problem."

There...fixed it.

[Liz]

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[gov_bean_ counter]

This belongs in Babylon Bee, but sadly, it isn’t.

[McGavin999]

A hoe is a gardening tool a ho is a Vice President

[SkyDancer]

Line personnel are not allowed to use the word “dikes” for cutting wire, they’re call wire cutting tool or diagonal pliers used for cutting wire. Next up: dikes for holding back water.

[Lurkinanloomin]

LOL!

[Organic Panic]

I took a Zuckerberg about 10am.

[David Chase]

The Mod isn’t an actual person it’s an AI program.

If you dispute it, a real person reviews the post and sees all of your Trump 2020 stuff on your page and then you get a 30 day ban.

Very simple process………..

[nesnah]

What do you call a group of prostitutes with green thumbs?

Garden hoes.

Thank you, I’ll be here all week.....

[Radix]

According to the Morgan Freeman character in Unforgiven, a ‘Ho is a ‘sporting woman.’

[GJones2]

Decades ago I used to post on a literary forum at the New York Times, and for a while its censoring software would reject posts that contained the name of Melville's novel Moby Dick.

[llevrok]

Th Hoe is a neighborhood in Plymouth UK. “Hoe” in this context means high ground

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/jan/27/facebook-apologises-flagging-plymouth-hoe-offensive-term

[Nifster]

Such ignorance

[Nifster]

This from the folks who get all their meals at Starbucks

[Lockbox]

Hoe yes? Hoe no!

[Mr. Jeeves]

We just have to make memes and ridicule these people. Relentlessly. It’s the only thing that works. Would-be revolutionaries can’t stand being mocked.

[PLMerite]

“Garden hoes.”

Not to be confused with “garden-variety-hoes.”