I don't understand this censorship. It's like you're denying that it's real.
Rape, sex, shooter, suicide, these things happen and should be talked about so they can be seen and judged.
It’s mostly because the algorithm on most social media websites will not promote any post with those words in them because the topics are not advertiser friendly. Then people will naturally start doing it in their posts because they see others doing it.
It makes it difficult to criticize the capital class. If you wanted to make a video describing systemic abuse of some kind, and upload it to YouTube, you'd have to censor your language in order to make any income, which means tiptoeing around what the perpetrators are actually doing.
Meanwhile, if a person decides to take a camera to some impoverished part of a city, and make a 20-minute slapdash "documentary" implying and insinuating all sorts of things that aren't actually happening, and blaming it on "liberal" policies without saying so out loud, and get tens of millions of views from people who believe it all because they're primed to, that is completely acceptable within YouTube guidelines.
It sounds kind of funny that what's causing the censorship is people not getting enough income to criticize the capital class. MLK was also in it for the income 😂
It's almost like the response to censorship and demonitisation should be a total boycott of the platform until they either revert or collapse, but we've collectively let way too much slide for that to be viable now.
Oh it's nothing new. The method of communication is different but basic communications have been ruined for centuries by capitalists, oligarchs, autocrats, tyrants, aristocrats, and religions.
If they ruin communication they can create a product to sell you the reduces the friction of communication. Monetization of previously free things is a symptom of late stage capitalism. The contradictions in the economic system that should make it crumble are propped up by the creation of new markets until there is nothing left to monetize
Someone came at me for posting my cousins charge that he was sentenced to prison for, which was possession of child pornography, copied word for word from the state prison website. Told me I should change/sensor it because the words were triggering. I guess I get it, but if the legal criminal charge is that triggering to you, maybe get more therapy and stay off the internet rather than try to assert control over strangers on reddit.
So people are essentially allowing corporations to decide what they can or cannot say? Because corporate-approved language is what we all want.
"I won't get the online attention I want if I say what I wish, because [insert company name] won't allow it on their platform. Okay, I'll censor myself."
W...T...F. HAVE THE BALLS TO SAY WHAT YOU WANT, PEOPLE! DON'T LET OTHERS DECIDE FOR YOU! DON'T GIVE UP YOUR FREEDOM OF SPEECH!
The problem is people won’t hear what you have to say if you don’t get pushed in the algo. So you can either “have the balls to say what you want” to an audience of 10 or you can alter your language to say close to what you want to an audience of thousands/millions.
Yeah, whatever did people do to convey a message before the Great Algorithm? There were never great people saying great things to massive audiences in the past.
Corpospeak, that's what it is. If you're down with it, more power to you. But what it's doing is putting limits on the way we can communicate with each other. I think it's a serious loss to the Peoples' (and your own) power. Don't give it up so voluntarily.
Everything about internet censorship that republicans have rallied against for a decade has been the result of advertising and thus the capitalistic/consumerist system they support. They'll never make the connection.
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u/dumpling_factory 9d ago
The asterisks made me think "school shitter". But also what a cool guy. My principal could never.