[HexbearShill]

The very existence of moderation is a limitation on certain speech. To acknowledge the necessity of any moderation is acknowledge the validity of free speech limitations in certain contexts. Anything beyond that is arguing specifics and thresholds, not categorical morality.

I’m curious if you feel the same way about other features such as the ability to ban users or remove comments, which is in effect is a much greater limit on people’s speech. I can say significantly less as a banned user than as a user who is discouraged from saying the n word (since you can still post those comments. they just end up with the word censored)

Do I think this is good feature? Absolutely not. It’s an anti-pattern. But my read is that it was a stop gap for a site which had a live instance running with minimal resources during early development. The maintainer has said they are removing it. Surely if the slur filter was a moral consideration rather than a practical one, they would have no interest in removing it.