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> It is not other people's responsibility to stay up to date on what may or may not be triggering you on any particular day.

The internet moves fast now, if there's a growing trend of a slang-word to get around hate speech laws without actually breaking any, and everyone reacting to it understands it... then it's hate-speech right?

"groomer" is only used in the context of hatred towards a particular group without technically violating any hate-laws. It's quickly becoming a way to say "fagg*t" without saying it...



We wouldn't have any words left to use if it was up to you I guess.

And what "hate-laws" are you referring to, in regards to speech, that people are "getting around"? You do know Twitter TOS is not the actual law right?


> We wouldn't have any words left to use if it was up to you I guess.

Good point, that's a bit of an extreme though and context/intent does matter.

> And what "hate-laws" are you referring to, in regards to speech, that people are "getting around"? You do know Twitter TOS is not the actual law right?

True, I meant the Twitter TOS I guess. But Musk wants to model the TOS as anything within the confines of the law right?


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


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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