Censorship is a real problem, but you don’t have to embrace it. That’s just making the problem worse.
Personal censorship has been around for a long time. People have always avoided saying things that others might view as weird or repulsive.
The true change is that everyday conversation is more monitored now than it ever has been before.
We have let insipidly authoritarian technology into our lives in an intimate way.
It doesn’t make much sense anyway. You try to take away the power a word has or make it so it’s not readily available, but that just makes me wonder more about it.
“The f word? Which f word?”
“Why did they put an asterisk to hide ‘abuse’?”
“F*cker” - great censoring. Nobody will ever be able to tell what that word was.
The point is to hide the swears and controversial topics from the TikTok moderation AI. TikTok deprioritises videos featuring things like swears, ugly people, controversial topics, and certain imagery. If you want to have reach, you need to use shitty codewords that everyone can see through but the algorithm has not been updated to include yet.
What I find much more interesting is the way the broader American(ised) culture(s) treat “the n-word”. It’s the exact same thing the kids do with swears, but across all ages on all media.
TikTok’s moderation is why people regularly say “un-alive” nowadays instead of “suicide.”
And I say fuck on work calls
Funny, I say fuck work
I worked for a buttoned-down suit & tie stick-up-their asses American financial institution back in the early 90s and I had this one coworker from Scotland who would curse a blue streak in every meeting / phone call. Anyone else would have been called before HR. He always got away with it. I think mostly because the suits couldn’t parse half of what he was saying. He would call out a lot of bullshit on projects, too. I fucking loved that guy.
A lot of the time they are doing it to avoid their posts coming up when malicious assholes search for posts about topics they want to argue about. I guess it works when those assholes are too lazy to try searching with wildcards.
Also a lot of them do it because of habit from games or messaging apps that have language filters. It is a modern version of allowable cursing that older people learned as kids, like saying fudge instead of fuck.
Well, the kids are the least woke generation yet, so that’s saying something.
I don’t think this is an unpopular opinion at all.
I agree, I don’t like all the self censorship that I think comes about from algorithms like tiktok - I’m not talking about ideas, but instead about literal words replacement censorship like “unalive” “seggs” and that like
I want people to be bold enough to use the real word - at least in irl conversation.
It feels way too much like Orwell’s Newspeak
Exactly! I hate how corporations get to control our language now and people just fall in line with it.
Bootlickers love corpos doing this and they enable it.
Kinda like boomers provided political cover for corpos to duck us over.
100%
They voted in every horrible aspect of modern life, and cheered themselves despite their obvious, visible failings.
Plenty of people don’t fall in line, but those aren’t the ones you’ll see on your social media feeds. The perception filter works two ways, only the kids stuck online for too long seriously start using that type of language and shitty social media can trick you into thinking it’s a universal thing.
Young people are famous for not speaking out and not rebelling against authority.
Oh wait.
That’s why it’s extra confusing that young people now are so fucking compliant.
Let me guess, you aren’t allowed to say anything these days? Kids are too damn sensitive?
How about we get you to bed?
The fuck are you on about?
Not sure but while genz is complainant looking, they surely LARP a lot less corpo and regime koolaid than millenials, genx and boomers.
I think they are the first gen majority non bootlickers, I would say millennials are 50/50
With that said genz is very passive, I think due to how they grew up. They can’t handle any confrontation so they avoid it. But they are definitely not bootlickers or stupid they know we getting fucked
People who speak up get fucked… Game 101.
While some people don’t mind that FAFO, cast majority are not willing to get dicked by their social circle, school and employer over having annoying “opinions” like getting paid a fair wage
It’s because more and more platforms (especially ones primarily used by younger people) are more likely to reduce the reach of their content when it has swear words in it. So many sites now push content to people or push content higher on search lists based on various factors. Content can be kept back even if it isn’t outright removed. So while it may be annoying to see people say stuff like “unalive” instead of “kill”, it’s entirely understandable.
Its to avoid being censored actually. I think we get their gist when we are missing one letter. Depends on which platform that determines if it’s pointless or not but who cares.
I always use hard Rs, don’t you worry.
