AnonomousWolf@lemm.ee to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 天前Meta Censors #Democrat when searched forlemm.eeimagemessage-square217fedilinkarrow-up11.24Kfile-text
arrow-up11.24KimageMeta Censors #Democrat when searched forlemm.eeAnonomousWolf@lemm.ee to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 天前message-square217fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareAnonomousWolf@lemm.eeOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up26·1 天前They will now shadow ban these topics, so people can catch them red handed. But users will just never see it in their feed
minus-squareRedstoneValley@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·edit-21 天前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.
minus-squaretburkhol@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 天前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.
They will now shadow ban these topics, so people can catch them red handed. But users will just never see it in their feed
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.