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GreenKnight23@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

because social media platforms will delete your content and ban you if you continue to talk about the “bad stuff”.

death
murder
suicide
rape
guns
drugs

welcome to the dawn of the age of new speak. I heard a 13 year old kid last week say “unalive” instead of “kill”.

we’re so fucked.

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azertyfun@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
It’s way worse. They don’t ban you and they don’t delete your content. TikTok ads don’t pay enough that demonetization is a concern either.

The algorithm just silently (!) deranks your content. They don’t have guidelines, they don’t have feedback, they will never communicate on what is and is not okay to post about. You’ll just say “Fuck ICE” in a video once and notice it is doing suspiciously worse than the rest, but then again, you’re never quite sure why some of your videos “make it” and some don’t. So maybe you’re being paranoid? You can’t tell.

So on top of the very real algorithmic censorship from these platforms, you’ve got very frequent bouts of mass psychosis where everyone self-censors for no other reason that other people are doing it and they don’t want to risk it. Is the word “dead” de-ranked? Quite likely not even, but who’s to say, and it doesn’t cost anything to farm a little engagement in the comments by self-censoring…

Isn’t the future bright?

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dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
It’s to be advertiser friendly. All kids use new words. We did the same

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- EightBitBlood@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Kids invent new words for their current culture. They in no way organically invent words that are friendly to advertisers. You should be disgusted that corporations are now such an invasive species they are affecting the language our youth is inventing. This is poison. It is not at all normal.
  
  Dude. Bro. Radical. Excellent. Tubular. Fleek. Ratchet.
  
  Are not at all the same as:
  
  Sewerslide. Unalive. Junocide.
  
  Oligarchs are forcing kids to learn a new language that downplays the very suffering they are causing worldwide.
  
  You should be furious, not apathetic. Or your kids will never learn the meaning of those words as they aren’t productive to the oligarchy.
  
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  - dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Yeah I’ve got bigger hills to die on than language bro.
    
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    GreenKnight23@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    language literally shapes your mind.
    
    I can see your language took the shape of a walnut.
    
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    EightBitBlood@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Yeah, but your kids don’t which is my point.
    
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