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Re:“Forbidden-Word” Lists Are a Symptom of Administrative Bloat by Macha on Wednesday March 08, 2023 @05:38PM (#35075757)
This is the same take.

Visibility = Number of people impacted * level of impact

Getting a high level of impact is hard. A company word list stacks the other side of the equation. That visibility gives people a feeling of impact and something to point out, to convince themselves they're doing good in the world, while at the same time they're funding the politician that is gerrymandering to reduce the voting impact of black people, for example.

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