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sarsaparilyptus@beehaw.org to Technology@beehaw.org · 11 months ago

Twitter API has a list of users who are allowed to use racial slurs

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Twitter API has a list of users who are allowed to use racial slurs

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sarsaparilyptus@beehaw.org to Technology@beehaw.org · 11 months ago
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    11 months ago

    any better source than a random discord screenshot?

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      Looks fake based on the response format alone honestly…

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        Would be a flag in the backend not a full list sent to the client.

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          You don’t get your slurs sent via your authentication provider’s “freezepeach-as-a-service” API? Sounds like your app is “woke” smh

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        Not to mention there are A LOT more slurs. There are pages and pages, it wouldn’t be a list like this.

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        Apparently “cotton” and “Mexican” are slurs

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          How dare you to type “cotton” and “Mexican”!

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          God damn, my shirts are made of c*tton, sorry bros

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