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/Red_Bullion 29d ago

I got banned from /r/politics for explaining the ideology of Malcolm X. Not even agreeing with it necessarily, just explaining it. On a sub obstensibly about politics.

/r/chapotraphouse originally got quarantined for a thread discussing how John Brown was right and did a good thing and the slave owners deserved it.

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u/Maleficent_End4969 29d ago

ChapoTrapHouse also regularly called for explicit violence, denied atrocities by communist states, like the Holodomor and Tiananmen Square massacre, and generally other tankie extremist drivel.

I mean shit they regularly talked about how North Korea is actually a communist paradise and so is China.

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u/TotalNonsense0 29d ago

Denying atrocities is the literal opposite of threatening violence. I'm pretty sure reddit is fine with that.

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u/Maleficent_End4969 29d ago

Living up to your username.

Denying atrocities is denialism; it's painting atrocities with a paintbrush of fiction as to deny the history and to handwave that violence is okay because those atrocities never happened.

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u/TotalNonsense0 28d ago

Sigh. I guess it really is impossible to be sarcastic on the intranet no matter how obvious it seems like it should be.

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u/Maleficent_End4969 27d ago

You'd be surprised. I've heard tankies repeat the exact same thing you said, without sarcasm