YouTube blocked chess channel after mistaken detection of racial slurs

Re:YouTube blocked chess channel after mistaken detection of... by vvanders on Sunday February 21, 2021 @09:09PM (#26219930)

I'm always surprised when someone goes through more effort to oppose something than to accept the PR and build a little trust. We did this in a codebase of ours recently, it really wasn't a big deal to make the change and I don't understand why everyone throws up a big stink about it.

If I'm going to spend my energy on something it seems like there's bigger things to tackle than pushing back against branch renames.

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Re:YouTube blocked chess channel after mistaken detection of... by qlk1123 on Sunday February 21, 2021 @09:40PM (#26220168)

A blacklist-to-blocklist PR may be OK for you, but a master-to-main PR is not OK at all for many others. Slavery is definite evil, but these PRs for branch renaming just went too far.

As someone not a U.S. citizen, the impact of PC is ridiculously huge. I know slavery and how bad it is. It appeared in my culture, and it is still there in some form too. However, the ENGLISH word "master" means not much to me. It is just a multi-purpose symbol, like many other words. As the meaning being a main branch, why bothering the renaming?

You claim that you are just spending your energy on something else, but in reality you are giving up the right to use your own language and to maintain the definition the meaning of a well-understood and frequently-used word.

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Re:YouTube blocked chess channel after mistaken detection of... by strken on Sunday February 21, 2021 @10:37PM (#26220590)

Personally I'm pretty glad that most projects don't break backwards compatibility in config files across the globe for flavour-of-the-month American politics, but hey, you do you.

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Re:YouTube blocked chess channel after mistaken detection of... by goostavos on Sunday February 21, 2021 @09:48PM (#26220234)

You presuppose everyone views this group of people's "trust" as something worth having. It's just as easy to close the PR and move on.

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Re:YouTube blocked chess channel after mistaken detection of... by johnisgood on Sunday February 21, 2021 @10:05PM (#26220377)

> I'm always surprised when someone goes through more effort to oppose something than to accept the PR and build a little trust.

That is why I just ignore or reject such PRs. I do not believe that enabling it is a good idea. It is not my job to improve their context-awareness either.

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