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kjeksfjes on May 13, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Twitter CEO fires two top executives, freezes hiri...

I'm pretty sure banning words that people use to get around hate speech isn't a particularly good idea...

gitgud on May 13, 2022 [–]

It's just disturbing to me when comments using this hateful slang is promoted to the top of some posts on social media...

I'm not sure what a good solution would be, as anything that interferes with the speech of others infringes free speech I guess...

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