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Getting 'no slurs' error on post (lemmy.ml)
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Hi, I am setting up a danish site. The word 'sl*t' means 'to complete' in danish. Whenever we make a post with that word, we get an error saying "no slurs". And the post is not accepted.

It does not help that we have enabled NSFW in community and on the post.

Please help. Thank you :)

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 years ago* (last edited 4 years ago) (1 children)

Thanks that's reassuring. So you can still have a discussion about precocious people (though i don't know why you would) but just not using specific protected swear words. So the intention is not to suppress ideas or opinions or ways of thinking.

But what about that time a post was deleted from lemmy.ml for criticising public health advice on mask usage?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 years ago (1 children)

The post wasn't just mask usage, it was saying that the virus doesn't matter and no one should be taking steps to prevent its spread. It's provably wrong information (papers have been written about the subject) and is dangerous if someone actually decides to take it seriously. You can see it in the modlog still.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 years ago (1 children)

That modlog is very interesting. The censorship is transparent just as it should be.

TBH I strongly disagree with your approach to freedom of speech. But you must be doing something right that Voat did wrong.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 years ago

freedom of speech

It's not critiques of a government we remove, it's hateful language, misinformation, trolling, and other such things. None of that is "freedom of speech", it's filth that has no place on Lemmy. The post you brought up, was one where someone was literally saying the virus wasn't real, taking that post down wasn't 'censorship', it was janitorially removing misinformation. If you have a problem with this, Lemmy might not be for you.