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> A friend got a warning from reddit just yesterday for saying not that a certain dictator should be assassinated but that he should be sentenced to death and t
by LocalH 1y ago
> A friend got a warning from reddit just yesterday for saying not that a certain dictator should be assassinated but that he should be sentenced to death and then executed by anyone in a position to do so.
A lot of social media today will sanction you if you say such things as "it's ok to punch a Nazi". But won't sanction a Nazi for saying things like "white replacement theory".
- account42 1y agoThat's how it should be but unfortunately a lot of social media will do the opposite of what you're suggesting.
- martin-t 1y agoYes, it's simple pattern matching. But they are gonna get better though, there are people working on using LLMs for surveillance right now. AFAIK it was automated, she appealed and won. But it has a chilling effect on people and some won't bother appealing. I'd do it anyway just to waste their time because they have to use a human to review. This is a good time to remind every tech worker that if you're working for an exploitative corporation, you have the moral obligation to do your job as poorly as you can: https://drewdevault.com/2025/04/20/2025-04-20-Tech-sector-restistance.html https://drewdevault.com/2025/04/20/2025-04-20-Tech-sector-re... --- Corporations these days have way more power to control speech than governments just a few decades ago and some people still refuse to call it censorship because they find some obscure definition which says it has to be done by a government. We will have to fight for the same freedoms as just a few generations ago because people learned nothing.