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# How I Got the BFD Banned
- URL: https://goodoil.news/how-i-got-the-bfd-banned/
- Published: 2021-07-07T22:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2021-07-07T10:07:10.000Z
- Author: Cam Slater
- Tags: Censorship, Free Speech, Fun Stuff, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 01:54

Well, I’ve gone and done it again: I’ve upset Zuck the Great and Powerful and brought down the ban-hammer.

Not on myself: I was perma-banned from Facebook ages ago (and have not missed it one whit, I might add; if anything my life’s been the better for it). No, this time it was *The BFD*’s Facebook page which felt the wrath of Zuck-by-proxy.

As you may recall, [I posted that the *Science-Based Medicine* website ](https://goodoil.news/science-website-pulls-trans-book-review/)had pulled a review by its long-time contributor and associate editor, **Dr Harriet Hall**. Hall is a veteran caller-out of bullshit, with whom I’ve enjoyed the occasional correspondence. The book she reviewed was **Abigail Shrier**’s *Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters*.

In her review, Hall argued that “the current political climate has made scientific study of these matters nearly impossible”.

As if to prove her argument, *Science-Based Medicine* hurriedly pulled the review.

**Facebook is going even further. *The BFD*‘s Facebook page was slapped with a seven-day ban for posting a link to my post.**

The *auto-da-fé* from the Facebook Inquisition stated that *Your post goes against our Community Standards on hate speech and insults.*

Yes, folks, what apparently sent the fruitcakes at Facebook HQ into a fit of the vapours was this shocking slur.

**Brace yourselves: this one is worse than the “n-word”.**

OK, are the children and pregnant women, oops, I mean, “birthing people”, out of the room?

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/the_bfd_zucked.jpg)

The post that got The BFD Zucked. The BFD. Photoshop by Lushington Brady.

Never mind that *RuPaul’s Drag Race* and *Project Runway* both feature liberal use of this supposed hate-speech. Or that the *Tranny Awards* were a much-coveted (in some circles, at least) gong, up to 2014.

I guess, like that other “word”, it’s OK when they do it.

But, dear readers, now I find myself in a quandary.

I’ve written a long paean to the beloved transistor radio I owned as a youngster in the 70s.

**Dare I now publish *The Tranny That Changed My Childhood*?**

Because I loved my tranny, when I was a pre-teen. Oh, the long nights I spent, huddled under the blankets with my tranny. Pressing it right up to my ear. Twiddling my tranny’s knob for hours (finding the right station was quite a challenge).

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/the_bfd_tranny.jpg)

My tranny was Japanese, of course. The BFD.

After all those hours of knob-twiddling I’d have to change the battery, of course. Otherwise, I’d be slapping my tranny hard, trying to get a sound out of it.

But turning my tranny on after inserting a new battery was something to look forward to.

The first time I heard the Sex Pistols was on my tranny.

Ah, yes, the humble transistor radio was a life-changing experience for a pre-teen rock’n’roll fan in the 70s.

But I can’t talk about it on Facebook any more.

**Please share this article so that others can discover *The BFD***