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/Odysseyan Mar 08 '25

Lol censoring an actual Italian name. Reddit is such a shitshow

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u/Loopy_beetle Mar 08 '25

i want to understand what goes on in Reddit's offices, I'm genuinely curious.

Where I work, we have at LEAST 2 meetings featuring tons of graphs and tables just to justify the change of a button's colour, and many more if it's a whole feature implementation.

Talking about this for 2 minutes would've pointed out the 80 million flaws this plan has, yknow, because it's a very common name that people from other countries who use this hell site may happen to have?

I hope this blows up in their faces, the cheeky idiots.

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u/Iamdarb 29d ago

Someone needs to take these fools to court, but sadly all the tech owners are complicit at this point.

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u/RedditIsShittay 29d ago

Take them to court for a reddit conspiracy?

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u/Coal_Morgan 29d ago

If they're talking about the goverment theoretically, stifling Free Speech.

Several different times the Trump organization has punished individuals, companies and news organizations for expressing opinions counter to their goals or heaven forbid critiquing them.

Sometimes it's through Government bids like during the last time he was in Office he punished Amazon for 100s of millions of dollars in contracts for alledgedly what the Washington Post was printing. Several times it's been the "Won't someone save me from the horrible things X has said" that gets the Trump lynch mob on them.

All of the companies that dumped DEI policies from their practices didn't do it because they came to a reasonable conclusion that they didn't work. They dumped them the second Trump was President and railed on them and called companies like Apple out for having them.

If their talking about taking Reddit to court, they're an independent entity that can censor their platform how they choose.