Re:Lemmy – A link aggregator for the fediverse
by hjek on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @11:33AM
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It's the Scunthorpe problem all over again. It's like Youtube flagging that chess channel for hate speech[0] (perhaps because words like "black", "white" and "attack" were used a lot). It will annoy people who're accidentally caught by the filter, and people who want to get past it will figure out a way anyway (by look-alike character substitution or whatever). I think it's the wrong approach to that problem.
Re:Lemmy – A link aggregator for the fediverse
by Igelau on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @11:26AM
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> That list seems very Americanocentric.
Indeed it is. There are comments here and there in the GitHub issues where the devs defend the filter as being targeted at making it harder for "the [American] right wing" to use the platform.
It's naïve, and they don't want to talk about it.
That list seems very Americanocentric.