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/swebo24 Mar 08 '25 edited Mar 08 '25

Reddit is also monitoring upvotes now and you will be warned if you upvote the wrong content. I'm surprised that's not an even bigger news.

Who knows what information gets forwarded to authorities  becauee you think or feel different from the allowed narrative 🤷‍♂️

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https://www.reddit.com/r/popculture/comments/1j5jngg/rpopculture_is_closed/

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u/bbtom78 Mar 08 '25

Red Note doesn't even do that but, oh no, Red Note bad.

Eventually the Chinese will have more freedoms than Americans. We can at least still use Google.

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u/4tran13 Mar 08 '25

Chinese social media is much more likely to issue shadow bans. You're also more likely to get a visit from the actual police.

Maybe eventually, America will degrade to a point where China is more free, but that day is not today or tomorrow.