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by altcognito 995 days ago
I'm kind of hoping that they adjust it to ask for clarification or find some sort of soft adjustment to make them less problematic rather than just trying to do blind keyword blocking.

Of course, I'd love for them to take the approach as well that folks are just going to do what they do, and maybe they'll burn out the novelty and give it a rest.

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I asked for an image of The Muppets as the counter-terrorist team from Counter Strike and that got blocked, so "terrorism" is definitely getting picked up understandably.
I don't see how blocking "Counterstrike" is understandable or helpful. How aren't these kind of restrictions just infantilizing users ?
You might be able to do "counter strike" and "ct" but "terrorism" as a word might be banned, even in the context of "counter-terrorism"