r/technology • u/marketrent • Mar 08 '25

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/zombiepiratefrspace 29d ago

In Europe, you censor Nazi.

In MAGAland, Nazi censors YOU!

(With apologies to the "in Soviet Russia"-Meme from 20 years ago)

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u/Elteon3030 29d ago

Yakov Smirnoff... 20 years ago... oh, buddy.

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u/vale_fallacia 29d ago

hugs for everyone who thinks Yakov Smirnoff was 20 years ago.

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u/Couikouik 29d ago

Nazi germany burned books Trump tech billionaires are destroying the Internet

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u/wildistherewind 29d ago

What a country!

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u/TheObstruction 29d ago

Tbf, Nazis did a lot of censoring in Europe before they also got censored.