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A Reddit moderation tool is flagging 'Luigi' as potentially violent content

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Here's my comment [1] from 3 days ago on the announcement on HN:

> It seems reasonablly likely this is inspired partially by the pivotal tone-setting role that Reddit - entirely organically - played in the outpour of support for Luigi Mangione. It's widely known that big tech CEOs are all in shared WhatsApp (or Signal) groups, and especially social media platforms are very attentive to the opinions of their powerful friends, both governmental and non-governmental. There's no doubt that a lot of them will have reached out to Reddit leadership after that event. Don't take this as justification, it's anything but that. Purely a look at their motivations and timing.

> Don't take this as justification, it's anything but that. Purely a look at their motivations and timing.

I'm not happy I was completely spot on, I'm sad this wasn't a more widely shared prescience.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43278099

Ive left reddit permenantly after I thunk 16 years because I caught a ban for repeating a Luigi slogan. Probably for the best, I should of left long ago and it is a mere shadow of its former usefulness and entertainment.

i was curious an took a look, seems to be some overblocking.

marioandluigi:

https://www.reddit.com/r/marioandluigi/top/

Why is a reddit "moderation tool"? Phrasing it this way makes it seem like it's some side effect, like they want to shift responsibility away.

It is reddit that decided to flag it like this.

because it is. Anyone who spends 5 minutes on Reddit knows this has become code for violence over the last few months.

If threats of violence against immoral or illegal systems becomes widespread and has to be censored, the system may be the problem, not the people.

Or the people constitute an uneducated low-IQ mob and shouldn't be allowed to parade and celebrate their violent ignorance.

How very authoritarian and anti-speech of you.

What's good for the goose is good for the gander.

Reddit is full of violent content that the admins and moderators overlook.

/r/combatfootage and /r/ukrainerussiareport/ are full people cracking jokes about violent deaths and advocating for violence.

It is telling that only certain kinds of violent content are banned.

Reddit doesn't give a single shit about violence. For the first time in decades, Luigi put a tiny bit of fear of god in the hearts of those in power, and they will have brought this up repeatedly in their exec group chats. With current US gov, it's not unlikely they'll have steered this too.

Hear, hear. The moment the working class gets a whiff of the overwhelming power they have over the patricians and the state, there is oppression.

Trump has shocked us with things we thought unimaginable. If he goes much further, we're going to see massive strikes and protests.

Those subs are supposed to be for documenting combat, and that calls for violence aren't being removed is a further indictment of Reddit and its users.

Why isn't Reddit held to the standard of Facebook or YouTube? It's long past time that it was.

While the comments are often dehumanizing, which I despise, the footage is invaluable for people who want a whiff of what (this) war is like. The chaos, the fog of war, the terror, the delivery of death being celebrated just as often as it is performed with casual detachment.

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