Some of the British tourists accused of bad behaviour leave their Hamilton accommodation. Photo / Christine Cornege
Some of the British tourists accused of bad behaviour leave their Hamilton accommodation. Photo / Christine Cornege
Facebook is banning New Zealanders from using the word "gypsy" on a page set up to track the unruly British tourists.
Uproar has taken over the page dubbed "Gypsy Scammers in NZ" - made up of nearly 5000 members - after a number of users have had their accounts temporarilybanned, Stuff reports.
The founder of the page said she was furious the page had been censored saying their freedom of speech has been infringed upon because members were doing nothing wrong.
""I'm just gobsmacked and p... off the amount of people getting reported and banned. It's absolutely ridiculous. They are classing it as bloody hate speech ... Facebook has gone too far," she told Stuff.
No spelling of the word, not in short form or with deleted letters was being accepted by Facebook users on the page.
It's been almost a week since the last members of the unruly British family who caused havoc across New Zealand fled the country calling their trip a "holiday from hell."
Despite leaving New Zealand shores, social media posts about the group are still tracking.
The "unruly tourists" before they left New Zealand, with Joe Doran (centre) sporting a new blond hairstyle. Photo / File
One of the unruly family members featured in a post less than 14 hours ago with a member of the Facebook group saying:
