If you search for 'Mega Drive' on Facebook or Instagram, you might find you're out of luck, as it appears that parent company Meta is suppressing the term following concerns about child exploitation.
As spotted by Twitter user @dodgykebaab, typing the term "Japanese Mega Drive" into Facebook Marketplace results in the following warning:
We think that your search might be associated with child sexual abuse. Child sexual abuse or viewing sexual imagery of children can lead to imprisonment and other severe personal consequences. This abuse causes extreme harm to children and searching and viewing such material adds to that harm. To get confidential help or learn how to report any content as inappropriate, visit our Help Centre.
The same warning appears when searching for "Mega Drive" on the photo and video-sharing site Instagram:
It's not known why Meta is taking action against this particular search term, but it could be related to the use of the upload site Mega for sharing offensive and exploitative material relating to minors.
We've reached out to Meta for comment and will update this story when we hear back.
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It has to do with illegal CP being commonly distributed by criminals through filesharing sites. Specifically MEGA and Google Drive.
So Facebook and Instagram is suppressing searches with either the words "Mega" and/or "Drive".
I know MEGA was also banned in the Philippines for some time, which caused chaos for people who used it for less illegal purposes, so it was quickly unbanned.
I know Twitter had this problem too a couple of years ago.
Sonic fans at it again.
This is why we can't have nice things anymore.
Try whatever you like Zuck, I’m not calling it Genesis!
That's funny, as someone who had a super Nintendo, I've also always considered the Genesis a form of child abuse.
"Not cool enough!"
Shh, Zuckerberg has to make it look like he's actually concerned about these things and is actively working to effectively eliminate it from his platforms.
Genesis it is then. XD
Just shows you how dumb these algorithms are and why having these tech companies serving as our thought police is probably bad.
laughs in American Genesis
@Hydra_Spectre It was a problem. Now it is a problem.
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