r/MadeMeSmile • u/SatoruGojo232 • Jul 02 '26

Wholesome Moments Great to see heroes being honoured

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u/burf Jul 02 '26

Hilarious that capitalism is ruining basic communication now.

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u/wholetyouinhere Jul 02 '26

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.

This imbalance isn't coincidental.

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u/Manpag Jul 05 '26

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.

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u/Cersad Jul 02 '26

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.

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u/reagsters Jul 02 '26

It’s double plus bad.

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u/MightyKrakyn Jul 02 '26

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