@AnonomousWolf@lemm.ee to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish • 2 months agoMeta Censors #Democrat when searched forlemm.eeimagemessage-square219fedilinkarrow-up11.27Karrow-down125file-text
arrow-up11.25Karrow-down1imageMeta Censors #Democrat when searched forlemm.ee@AnonomousWolf@lemm.ee to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish • 2 months agomessage-square219fedilinkfile-text
minus-square@RedstoneValley@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglish11•edit-22 months 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-square@tburkhol@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish4•2 months 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.