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by seszett 1747 days ago
Weird, so you can't talk about Main Coons on Lemmy? Or even say that your train was delayed in French.

That list seems very Americanocentric.
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hjek 1747 days ago
It's the Scunthorpe problem all over again. It's like Youtube flagging that chess channel for hate speech[0] (perhaps because words like "black", "white" and "attack" were used a lot). It will annoy people who're accidentally caught by the filter, and people who want to get past it will figure out a way anyway (by look-alike character substitution or whatever). I think it's the wrong approach to that problem.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27914261

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Igelau 1747 days ago
> That list seems very Americanocentric.

Indeed it is. There are comments here and there in the GitHub issues where the devs defend the filter as being targeted at making it harder for "the [American] right wing" to use the platform.

It's naïve, and they don't want to talk about it.

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