If your last name is Chutia, your Facebook account might be blocked!

 The All Assam Chutia Students’ Union (Aacsu) has accused Facebook of blocking the accounts of thousands of people with the name Chutia saying that the social network has confused it with Hindi slang, reports the Times of India. Chutia, pronounced Sutiya, is the name of a community in Assam. But chutia, or chutiya, is also a mildly derogatory term in Hindi: Urban Dictionary translates its most common slang usage as ‘fool’.

Said Jyotiprasad Chutia, Aacsu general secretary:

“Facebook has blocked the accounts of all the subscribers belonging to the Chutia community of Assam thinking the names are false and fabricated. For Chutia being an abusive word in the Hindi language, Facebook authorities thought that the account holders are fake and fabricated. But, they are still unknown to the fact that Chutia is an ethnic tribe of Assam which has a rich historical background in the state history.”

 

The student group accused Facebook of taking down the account of artist Krishnamoni Chutia, but at the time of writing his page was fully functional and there were at least 300 results for a search on the family name Chutia.

The students’ protest against Facebook, which included the burning of an “an effigy of the social networking site” in five Assam districts is part of a wider campaign. A sit-in in Guwahati is intended to draw the government’s attention to demands for “tribal status and reservation for the Chutia community in educational institutions and preservation of historic monuments of the Chutia dynasty.”

Facebook, along with Google+ and other social networks, insists that users register with their real name and they will take action against anyone using a fake name.

 

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