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moron4hire 5 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: The Origins of Wokeness

There was a period of time on Musk's X where an internal filter would instaban anyone who wrote the letters "CIS" together.

lightbritefight 5 months ago [–]

That period of time is now. That filter is still active.

mike_hearn 5 months ago | [–]

It isn't:

https://x.com/search?q=cisgender&src=typed_query&f=live

Izkata 5 months ago | | [–]

"Cisgender" is a technical/scientific term. The slur is "cis" alone.

mike_hearn 5 months ago | | [–]

That's irrelevant because "cis" isn't blocked either:

https://x.com/search?q=cis&src=typed_query&f=live

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