• Joe Cool@lemmy.ml
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    The comments are pretty interesting when you read them on lemmy.ml

    That instance has server wide word filtering enabled that can’t be removed.

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        The idea that moderating slurs on an online forum is a stepping stone to an authoritarian hellscape really requires a special kind of brain worms

      • Joe Cool@lemmy.ml
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        I’m actually OK with it.

        It’s their instance, you can check the wordlist in the config. It’s the slur_filter_regex. If it would bother me too much I’d change instance or spin up my own.
        I’m more enraged by shadow banning like on “other platforms”.

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          slur_filter_regex":"(fag(g|got|tard)?\\b|cock\\s?sucker(s|ing)?|ni((g{2,}|q)+|[gq]{2,})[e3r]+(s|z)?|mudslime?s?|kikes?|\\bspi(c|k)s?\\b|\\bchinks?|gooks?|bitch(es|ing|y)?|whor(es?|ing)|\\btr(a|@)nn?(y|ies?)|\\b(b|re|r)tard(ed)?s?)",
          
            • djsoren19@yiffit.net
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              What? it looks fine to me, outside of the general difficulty of reading regex. I mean, it’s not meant to be readable, it’s meant to catch all the different spellings if what they want to filter and do so.

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          Nope. Completely missed the point.

          What is unspoken there is that censorship is always based on good intentions such as yours. People trying to censor sex are trying to do the same thing you’re trying to do with censoring hate speech.

          “Only censoring the bad stuff” is not the solution here. It’s the source of the problem.

    • Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee
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      What’s hilarious about that place is you can type removed and they can’t tell the difference between that and a slur being blanked out by the system.