• Octavio@lemmy.world
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    24 days ago

    I ran into the same problem with my Elon Musk filter when people started calling him Elmo in the headlines. I added Elmo to the list, but who knows how many important updates about the lovable muppet Elmo I missed out on?

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      24 days ago

      I think we will find it increasingly difficult to filter out these people in the future. The reason is understandable: US citizens fear that they will be persecuted as dissidents if they post negative things about the regime and their henchmen. I think this fear is completely justified, as the US is now essentially already a dictatorship with all the associated mechanisms of repression. Therefore, I’m afraid, we will have to accept that simply adding names to the block list is no longer sufficient.