Facebook could ban your account for searching for this Sega console | TierraGamer: news and entertainment about anime, series, video games and technology

Some social media users began to warn about a peculiar way in which you could lose your account. Facebook. If you try to search for a Sega Mega Drive console on this social network, you could end up with a restricted account and perhaps monitored by the authorities.

If you search for Mega Drive in the Facebook search bar, it will take you to a message. It indicates that your search could be related to cases of child pornography. After the message two buttons appear, one to report this type of content and another to contact technical support. There is no option to back out of your search.

For years, this social network has had a section called marketplace, where users can buy and sell certain objects. Consoles and video games from bygone eras tend to be very popular here, so it's not unusual for someone to search for a Sega Mega Drive. A console that went on sale in 1990 and enjoyed great success. In

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However, now Facebook believes that the search is related to indecent material, so it bans the term and warns the accounts of those who enter it. Perhaps if the case becomes larger they will make some adjustments to differentiate whether users are looking for the console or really want the aforementioned content.

Why does Facebook prohibit searching for the word Mega Drive?

There is currently an online storage page known as Mega. Here users can upload files and then share the link with someone else so they can see them too. Although the goal sounds innocent, many use it to share different types of pornographic material.

This was especially common in various Facebook groups where links were shared through comments. Due to this, the social network began to pay special attention to the links that are shared from this site, which curiously shares the name of Mega Drive with the beloved console. So if you want to avoid being banned and being on the FBI's blacklist, you better keep your best memories of this Sega system.

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