The Chapo.Chat moderators have already stated that they're planning on removing the hard-coded slur filter from their instance of Lemmy; it's the reason you're not able to say the full text of ACAB. It's just a bad idea to have something like this hard-coded in, leftist instances are created by fostering a good culture and not by babying the people who run these servers and if we want Lemmy to grow as an actual federated alternative to Reddit then it's worth bringing up how bad this policy is by the original developers.
The original developers are very talented and have incredibly good instincts so far, but yeah it's just a growing pain thing that needs to change.
Yeah. I can see the intent behind it, but a few quick examples show how it's not really practical.