Is the self censoring of big boy and girl worlds like "murder," "suicide," "execution," "Nazi," and "genocide" on videos and posts related to this? It's been driving me crazy. Do not go quietly into that night and whatnot... Do not comply in advance.
The idea of changing my speech so my words look nice next to a Toyota advertisement fills me with disgust and anger.
Well this has to do with the simple fact that social media reduces the reach of posts containing certain of those words. So if you want to talk about them and reach people..
I wish those outraged with liberal "cancel-culture" would actually care about free speech, instead of only wh3n it suits their narratives.
There’s a variant of “cancel culture” that’s actually just trial by publicity and I think that’s objectively a bad thing.
But often, people in social media are just looking for attention by deliberately inciting outrage, posting their “hot takes” and making controversial statements—and then when other people with opposing views reply to disagree, the original posters start crying about “cancel culture” when, in fact, it’s just plain old disagreement in public discourse.
What needs to happen here is for people to take accountability in what they post in social media, and to take it as seriously as saying their opinions out loud in a physical, public space. If you’re deliberately inciting anger by saying something that puts a group of people at a disadvantage, don’t be surprised if someone from that group stands up to fight back. Your right to free speech does not mean protection from humiliation for the stupid things that you say in public.
It's probably better to just stop using social media. (And stop tolerating people that do.)
I doubt that even something as 'light' on that spectrum as Hacker News is worthwhile enough compared to the non-social-media alternatives. (As a reminder, you can have a tree-like discussion structure without an upvote system.)
Have an ironic upvote. HN's system of not explicitly showing post scores and using accumulated score to give access to downvote buttons etc is the least bad that I have encountered.
No, its to avoid auto downranking, by which ever filter the platform uses.
You can use all those words, but then, the theory goes, STT and OCR interprets the "bad" words and limits the reach of them.
But isn't this part of the problem? People just self-censor to not be censored.
If only content that follows the censor rules survives the censor, is that "self" censorship? That just sounds like plain ol' censorship.
That's something that drives me crazy as well. I don't actually use the big 'algorithmic social media' sites, only Telegram and Discord mostly, and seeing screenshots/memes with those words censored there made me wonder why, at first. Then i saw people auto-censoring themselves in those places where there's no such thing as algorithmic de-ranking. The social media generation already find it normal, acceptable, and is specially ironic to me that a lot of people who are vocal against those services have conformed to what they say to stand against.
That behavior also highlights how people within those services care so much about reach, clout, 'going viral', instead of communicating with other people.
This is how curse words are born. Which is funnily appropriate because English is really lacking in this department.
> English is really lacking in this department.
Really? As compared to what?
I would have said Japanese is the language that actually lacks in this department.
Besides English, I speak Polish, Spanish and Dutch. English curses are the lamest.
Euphemism and dogwhistles to continue openly discussing the same things sounds like the opposite of compliance and self-censorship.