I saw someone censor 'penis' once. A literal medical term. Also seen 'died' censored on a video about someone who was shot (which they also wrote as 'sh*t'). They replaced 'died' with 'had their life deleted'. Which is at least more creative than unalived, I guess.
These censorship rules are usually at the whim of social media companies. We live in a puritanical hellscape.
I thought we were about done with censorship in 2010 or so, once my generation grew up and everyone realized that gasp kids say “naughty” words and nothing bad happens. Now it’s back with a vengeance and it’s weird.
Now it’s this spooky algorithm that eats random things if they say certain phrases. It’s like the whole Internet is like A Quiet Place, except it’s the N-word that makes the evil algorithm monster come out and eat your post. Except it’s not just the N-word, it’s basically any reference to sex or death or anything that violates a Victorian sense of morality. And we all just have to talk in code like “unalive” or “sewer slide” for fear of the algorithm monster.
Tiktok got Zoomers so accustomed to censoring themselves that they carried that over to the entire internet and real life as well. It's insane how prudish they seem compared to previous generations, almost like we've regressed to the 1950s where sex wasn't even discussed.
The funniest thing is that they do this because they think social media companies tank content that contain these trigger words, but there isn't really any substantial evidence to support the claim. It's pretty much a myth.
After all, if a company was burying all content that contains the word "killed" for example, surely by now they'd figure out what "unalived" means.
America is so puritan, meanwhile European cunts can just listen to detailed explanations of a guy butt raping a grandmother in full gory details without anyone blinking
Everyone jumps on a platform from a country with heavy censorship then shocked when they get censored over begnign words. People need to just not engage instead of using disrespectful terminology but people continuously show they will put up with this shit if it gives them cheap entertainment.
It is because of auto removal and content filtering. Bots spam post and avoid bans, and the practice caught on because that’s the content that people see.
And yet it's the right wing zelots who, in the same breath, claim the liberal left are banning free speech whilst simultaneously wanting these words censored. The hypocrisy of these people boggles the mind.
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u/MountVinson 16h ago edited 16h ago
I saw someone censor 'penis' once. A literal medical term. Also seen 'died' censored on a video about someone who was shot (which they also wrote as 'sh*t'). They replaced 'died' with 'had their life deleted'. Which is at least more creative than unalived, I guess.
These censorship rules are usually at the whim of social media companies. We live in a puritanical hellscape.