>but instead to impose a narrow-minded agenda on everybody
Having a slur filter is not "narrow-minded agenda", it's mainstream. And, well, it's open source, so anyone can maintain a fork that removes it with not much work.
Having a slur filter is not "narrow-minded agenda", it's mainstream. And, well, it's open source, so anyone can maintain a fork that removes it with not much work.
There was no need, and is quite malicious, to imply and talk down to their own users/supporters of their software as anything"-ist" in their motivations, which in many cases is considered a more corrosive/ruinous label (court of public opinion) than "convicted criminal" (court of law) in the West.
I think it does display a narrow-minded agenda for the authors of hosting software intended to potentially host a wide variety of forums to declare unilaterally that all sites hosted using their software must use a particular slur filter declared by them, or else create and maintain a fork.
Nevermind the fact that art such as film frequently relies on the use of slurs when dealing with this subject matter.
We aren't protected in real life from being called words. I've certainly had my fair share hurled at me. By having to deal with it both at a young age and in adulthood, I've grown a thick skin and strong defense system.
I worry that this attitude is more dangerous that what is trying to be accomplished.
I'm a white american and I think I agree with this. Making sure that only one race of people can say bad words on the internet doesn't seem practical to me. If we don't want some races saying a word, I don't see a way of preventing that which doesn't sacrifice either anonymity or black people being able to say that.
There's only one implementation that I can imagine, and it's pretty impractical and ethically dubious. The idea is to have some kind of verification process to prove that you're a certain race, and somehow publicly store the public keys of people in each category. Then, when someone want to post a word that only some races can say, they submit a zero-knowledge proof that the message was written by someone who controls the private key of one of the public keys in the appropriate category. But I'm pretty sure that a registry of people organized by race is neither practical or desirable.