If you happen to be named Fanny, and want to discuss your cigarettes, the expensive knobs from your doors, your prized farmyard pigs, your pussy cat, and even your last teabag, make sure you are very careful with the words you decide to use on Police Scotland’s Facebook page.
“Fanny”, “knobs”,”pussy”, “pigs”, “fags” and even “teabag” are all words that have banned by Police Scotland’s filters on Facebook.
The police force’s software bans a total of 139 words and phrases, it has been revealed, and although many of the words would usually be asterisked out in the pages of the Press and Journal, a number of other words you would happily say in front of your granny also made the list.
Cracker has been banned due to racist connotations from across the Atlantic, as has any potential for porcine comparisons, with “Pig” and “Pigs”, both added to the filter.
The banned words also reveal Police Scotland’s no-nonsense approach to reducing sectarianism, with both “fenian” and “hun” banned.
Police Scotland have also banned any mention of Celtic supporters group, the “Green Brigade”.
Police Scotland ban “teabags”, “pigs” and “Green Brigade” in online crackdown
