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Palmer Luckey: YouTube has deleted every comment I ever made about Wumao (五毛)

• xoxoy 6y ago
  NB: confirmed that any comment I make with 五毛 is immediately deleted. Crazy.
• sp332 6y ago
  Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23223219 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23223219
  • xoxoy 6y ago
    Sure, but there’s a big difference in that “communist bandit” is considered a slur and wumao is a widely accepted term. Maybe Google could say the former is considered offensive but there’s no defense for the latter.
• zozbot234 6y ago
  Isn't "wumao" used a lot more than the rather old-fashioned anti-PRC/anti-CCP slur that's been discussed previously? I've even seen it crop up at HN a few times. I wonder what's up with this stuff - YT seems to be taking a rather weird route towards harmonizing their comment section.