AnonomousWolf@lemm.ee to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · 22 hours agoMeta Censors #Democrat when searched forlemm.eeimagemessage-square206fedilinkarrow-up11.12Karrow-down121file-text
arrow-up11.1Karrow-down1imageMeta Censors #Democrat when searched forlemm.eeAnonomousWolf@lemm.ee to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · 22 hours agomessage-square206fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareRedstoneValley@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·edit-217 hours agoYeah, that was my thought too. What a dumb way to censor by search input instead of censoring the output. It probably went like this at Meta: Product Manager: Hey we just got this word filter list from HQ to be implemented ASAP. Devs: Sure thing boss.
minus-squaretburkhol@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·17 hours agoThat’s the mistake: putting it in the open ban list instead of the shadow ban list. Dev acting in #resistance or dev making an honest mistake? I suppose we’ll never know.
Yeah, that was my thought too. What a dumb way to censor by search input instead of censoring the output.
It probably went like this at Meta:
Product Manager: Hey we just got this word filter list from HQ to be implemented ASAP.
Devs: Sure thing boss.
That’s the mistake: putting it in the open ban list instead of the shadow ban list.
Dev acting in #resistance or dev making an honest mistake? I suppose we’ll never know.
hopefully resistance.