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/Pellinaha 29d ago

Hundreds and thousands and millions of people die and no one bats an eyelid. One healthcare CEO is dead, and all these oligarch adjacent platforms with their billionaire CEOs immediately get their panties in a twist.

The minute I read the post on RedditSafety, I clocked that it was about L*igi.

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u/Frigidevil 29d ago

It's because they are afraid. My office is full of right leaning boomers and thankfully politics NEVER comes up because otherwise I'd lose my mind. The day after the attack, suddenly everyone was talking about how shit united and the healthcare industry as a whole was. It was a moment so relatable that for a brief moment in time it seemed realistic that the country would understand we are divided less by politics and more by class.

Think about how every single media outlet freaked out over the response, and how little it swayed the public discourse.