It’s not children censoring things. It’s people obfuscating words that may get flagged and have their post removed.
These days software can scan images and videos and not just text, for violations of whatever rules they have.
Like on most of the mainstream platforms just the audible mention of suicide gets you flagged. So people have adopted ways to avoid detection like saying unalive instead of suicide.
This censoring of the word death is not for ethical reasons as you are insinuating.
Basically don’t let it piss you off. Terrible hill to die on.
I hate it too, but it is to prevent their post from getting flagged and/or removed. It’s a new form of censorship that came into being from advertisers who don’t want their products associated with certain topics. The advertisers then threaten to stop advertising on the platform which caused the platform to automate cracking down on any topic that isn’t considered advertiser friendly, regardless of how innocent the word’s use is.
Hey, did you know your profile is set to appear as a bot and as a result many may be filtering your posts and comments? You can change this in your Lemmy profile settings.
As many have sort of pointed out, it’s not the children. The censorship comes from grown ups running companies. The result is people who just want to speak freely needing to speak slightly differently.
The shit these children censor pisses me off more than it really should
It’s not children censoring things. It’s people obfuscating words that may get flagged and have their post removed.
These days software can scan images and videos and not just text, for violations of whatever rules they have.
Like on most of the mainstream platforms just the audible mention of suicide gets you flagged. So people have adopted ways to avoid detection like saying unalive instead of suicide.
This censoring of the word death is not for ethical reasons as you are insinuating.
Basically don’t let it piss you off. Terrible hill to die on.
Fuck that’s it’s stupid as shit
I hate it too, but it is to prevent their post from getting flagged and/or removed. It’s a new form of censorship that came into being from advertisers who don’t want their products associated with certain topics. The advertisers then threaten to stop advertising on the platform which caused the platform to automate cracking down on any topic that isn’t considered advertiser friendly, regardless of how innocent the word’s use is.
When this happens “d֎ath” is inevitable.
WHICH PLATFORM
Fucking boycott that shit, we don’t need that in our internet
It’s all of them.
WELL I WANNA BE ANGRY
Hey, did you know your profile is set to appear as a bot and as a result many may be filtering your posts and comments? You can change this in your Lemmy profile settings.
Thanks, I’m not sure how that happened!
No worries, thank you for acknowledging it. I’ve run into this enough that I think maybe the wording of the setting should be more clear.
As many have sort of pointed out, it’s not the children. The censorship comes from grown ups running companies. The result is people who just want to speak freely needing to speak slightly differently.
Any website that censors the word “death” should be boycotted
Websites don’t censor any more: they demonetise.
Same thing
Cute. But no, I’m commenting to explicitly point out that the censorship is still there but coming from the platforms run by companies.
Yep, just like the people you referenced.
Yep.