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CannotSleep420 [he/him] @hexbear.net

2y ago

Slur filters are authoritarian

:19: :84:

From the lemmy.ml modlog.

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The word "statist" belongs in the slur filter.
- The first contribution I want to make to the lemmy backend is a word filter. It would kind of be like the slur filter, but it would let you turn it into any other word you want instead of removed . I feel like a lot of fun could be had with that.
  
  Fark has been doing that for almost 25 years (e.g. every instance of the N-word becomes "attractive and successful African-American") and I'd be lying if I said nobody had a problem with it, but people who see fit to challenge it tend to give up very quickly.
  
  When this site launched it automatically converted "Israel" to "Palestine," but this caused a lot of confusion and it was scrapped in about a week.

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