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/XFX_Samsung 29d ago

Billionaires must really be scared of an uprising if they're already squeezing balls of Reddit to censor stuff about the situation.

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u/860v2 29d ago

Hate to break it to you but billionaires are not scared of Redditors. No one is.

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u/LeaveTheJsAlone 29d ago

Then why does it matter what redditors think about this? Let them say whatever they want if nobody cares about them.

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u/860v2 29d ago

Why do you think terms of service exist?

Reddit doesn’t ban racism because it’s scared of racists, they do it because they decided it’s not something they want on their site.

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u/PaydayLover69 29d ago

Reddit doesn’t ban racism

you could've just stopped there because they don't.

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u/860v2 29d ago

That’s objectively false.

Also, nice deflection.

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u/[deleted] 29d ago

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u/860v2 29d ago

Yes, it is. I only used racism as an example. So not only are you wrong, you’re trying to make this an argument about racism (which is not the topic of the thread or any comments).

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u/PaydayLover69 29d ago

ok astroturf bot.

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u/860v2 29d ago

This is why you don’t try to deflect. You already ran out of things to say. 😂

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u/BouncingThings 28d ago

*unless it's racism against white people.

That's perfectly OK then. -reddit