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

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any better source than a random discord screenshot?

Looks fake based on the response format alone honestly…

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

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

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

Apparently "cotton" and "Mexican" are slurs

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

You lucky bastard. Mine is made of Mexicans.

I could definitely see how cotton could be used in some pretty heinous ways, maybe not by definition slurrs, but still. Given the historical context of the United States In particular.

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Why doesn't lemmy at least have pinned comments and flairs? Seems like a serious omission to me.

I think pinned comments were added in a recent update, but in that case Beehaw hasn't updated for various reasons that have been explained elsewhere.

I'm not sure about the flairs. It would be a very helpful moderation tool in a toolbox that is quite limited at the moment.

wordlist-ignore-for-protected-users

What kind of shitty programmers make their variables this way

The same kind who have a separate variable for ignore-wordlist-regex that's just another list of users almost identical to the first one.

I have configured systems like Okta and this detail almost makes me believe this is a real leak. 😂

The kind that didn't walk out when Elon made it "sink in" that they were going to be treated like slaves: overworked, underpaid, full of anxiety, coffee, and with a boss who will randomly disconnect a whole datacenter overnight with no previous warning.

PS: not going to say it's real 💯, but... it's "plausible".

Once again I cast my vote for SpOnGeBoBcAsE. Pascal & camel cases are for the weak.

To my knowledge, twitter doesn't block anyone from using slurs to begin with. I'm sure you can find plenty used on daily basis on "black twitter" for example.

That being said I'm going to need a more credible source than a random screenshot

5 more...

So many Trumps these days. But, is this even real? Not because I don't think this can't be real, because it's Twitter. My question is, is there any evidence this image being real? Because anyone could create such a fake and most people would believe it... -- which tells a lot about Twitter, BTW, regardless of being true or false.

I kinda doubt there’s gonna be any level of shitstorm

This is, however, hilarious.

  1. Why would this show in their API? Makes no sense.
  2. Isn't everybody allowed to use slurs on there now?

Url does not resolve to an IP address

I checked too, it's not a valid public DNS record, so then the question is, does Oktas internal DNS resolve this. Even if it does, how does okta even sit in this? Are they the identity provider for Twitter? Surely even if it's identity, it's got nothing to do with content moderation? So many questions.

Odd. I get a full fledged HTML 404 page.

EDIT: https://archive.ph/c49ul

What dns server resolves the site?

I tried to visit the site again when I saw your comment and discovered the DNS record had disappeared between when I wrote that comment and now. Fascinating. It must have been taken down and the change took a while to propagate. Judging by the fact that I could see anything at all before my ISP's nameserver got the memo, the 404 page that was there seems to still be up even though the DNS record that got you to it is gone -- wish I had thought to nslookup it when I still could. If I had to take a guess, though, it probably resolved to the same IP address as the twitter.okta.com domain.

I'm currently overseas in SE Asia, it resolves to a local address (10.3.1.1) with a cname record pointing to an AWS load balancer with 3 separate IPs through my ISP's DNS server. protected-users.twitter.okta.com still appears across a few different DNS records according to dnschecker.org at the time of my post.

Can someone confirm this is real?

yt shorts is such an atrocious format to share any sort of information.

So is Twitter but that didn't stop Twitter from becoming wildly popular. YouTube shorts are just tweets in a video format.

At least you can quickly read a tweet, considering how short they are it takes like a second. Shorts are worse, you have the same limited information but you have to watch the whole damn thing to get it (even with subtitles).

Yeah I agree, but that's the place where the expert I know shared their knowledge. If I had a text based source I would have used that.

It's more a criticism on them than it is on you, fwiw.

As someone who integrates Okta for a living, I have no idea why this would be part of the config. I can't even figure how you would use Okta for content filtering at all.

It's an authentication service...

Unless there's a plausible snapshot from the wayback machine or archive.is, with DNS decords or any other traces that could link the name to Twitter in an official capacity, I'd take this with a grain of salt.

Yeah, it doesn't really make any sense for them to have it anywhere other than the backend.

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Rules for thee, but not for me?

Ugh, this is all so pathetic.

Bending over backwards to accommodate the loudest idiots in the room because they complain when they face consequences for their actions.

Bending over backwards to accommodate the loudest idiots in the room because they complain when they face consequences for their actions.

Your reading this wrong. The guy in charge is one of those idiots. He's just doing favors for his friends. No bending required.