r/technology • u/marketrent • 29d ago

Social Media Reddit’s automatic moderation tool is flagging the word ‘Luigi’ as potentially violent — even in a Nintendo context

https://www.theverge.com/news/626139/reddit-luigi-mangione-automod-tool
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u/Soufledufromage 29d ago

Loving all this free speech we are having lately

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u/Active-Ad-3117 29d ago

Exactly this in no way violates anyone’s free speech.

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u/Soufledufromage 29d ago

Oh now it suddenly isn’t, but when literal racism was being banned from twitter all hell broke loose

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u/Active-Ad-3117 29d ago

You also don't have free speech on twitter. You do have free speech in a public park or in front of city hall or the steps of congress. Go be a racist asshole there.

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u/Adammmmski 29d ago

If there was truly free speech on here there would be no moderators no?

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u/Datkif 29d ago

Its as simple as private vs public space. You can swear in public, but not at nana's.