If you’re unsure which rule applies here, I will highlight it:
The software must obey the user’s instructions unconditionally, and may not limit the user beyond a reasonable level (for example, you should validate the To address in an email client, but you shouldn’t prevent the user from copying text from a PDF with permission bits)
And to a lesser extent:
The software must not take deliberate action to restrict the users access to their computer, unless the user has set up said restrictions (for example, a login password)
The reason I’m showing this to you is to explain why I don’t support the slur filter. If the admin could disable it, it would be fine.
Also, I hate how Americans think the entire internet is for them and them only. Other languages might have different meanings for the blocked words, or they might not be stigmatized like they are in the US. For example, the r-word (censored because otherwise this comment would probably be removed), is socially acceptable to say here in Hungary. Nobody gets upset about, save for the person being insulted. But it’s treated as nothing more or nothing less than any other insult.
And to top it all off, the filter isn’t even effective. It can be circumvented by tricks that are as old as swear filters, e.g. inserting dots between letters, inserting spaces between letters, or any other character (“|”, “:”, “,”, “*”, etc.).
It is unethical, it centers the entire word around the US, and it also doesn’t work. What a great combo.
They aren’t part of the software though, they are the people who happen to use it. A whole different problem.
yeah and who are the only people who care enough about using slurs that they fork an entire piece of software to remove a slur filter?
I don’t care about using slurs, I do, however, care about user freedom. These are my own rules regarding software freedom. This is what I use when making software. Don’t mind “ethical software” in the URL, this is a different kind of “ethical software” (I didn’t know about said movement when I wrote this).
If you’re unsure which rule applies here, I will highlight it:
And to a lesser extent:
The reason I’m showing this to you is to explain why I don’t support the slur filter. If the admin could disable it, it would be fine.
Also, I hate how Americans think the entire internet is for them and them only. Other languages might have different meanings for the blocked words, or they might not be stigmatized like they are in the US. For example, the r-word (censored because otherwise this comment would probably be removed), is socially acceptable to say here in Hungary. Nobody gets upset about, save for the person being insulted. But it’s treated as nothing more or nothing less than any other insult.
And to top it all off, the filter isn’t even effective. It can be circumvented by tricks that are as old as swear filters, e.g. inserting dots between letters, inserting spaces between letters, or any other character (“|”, “:”, “,”, “*”, etc.).
It is unethical, it centers the entire word around the US, and it also doesn’t work. What a great combo.