- Every time people on youtube says words like "unalive" I cannot stop thinking about newspeak.
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I once thought a service like YouTube would bypass the stupid censorship rules of even basic cable TV (which are looser than broadcast TV in the US). Oh how wrong I was.
Tbf, "unalive" is only a thing because of TikTok, unless they're pushing the same content to both platforms, when they have to go with the most restrictive version of their combined rules.
And even then most of the problem is keeping it monetized, not necessarily the platforms during it down directly.
But since videos are a career now, it's a fairly effective ban on certain words.
TikTok is way way waaaay too picky imo. Personally I don't want anything censored at all, for any reason.
Unless someone is going ham on a topic that's triggers you into some PTSD situation, I don't really think there's a good argument for censorship to exist in any form at all.
If some idiot is using language you don't like you just stop listening to them and realize that when you're scrolling through an non-curated source of content, you will hear idiots saying stupid shit.
But the action taken on them shouldn't be an effective gag, it should be just getting ignored. Once blocked and ignored enough, it's basically a shadow ban. It wouldn't be profitable for them to be offensive just for the sake of being offensive, but they shouldn't be getting what basically amounts to fines just because they said someone "died"or got "killed".
That kinda shit is bonkers.
“Unalive” and others on tiktok aren’t even enforced. People believe that the algorithm will like it better if they do it but there are tons of very popular videos with cursing and “killed.” I think it’s the viewers swiping away (affecting the algorithm) and the creators voluntarily censoring themselves that created this.
I've never been on TikTok, but I've heard creators that do both mention that doing so is because of TikTok rules.
Fuck censors.
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Cable doesn't have rules, other than each corporate entity's own practices of what they're willing to publish/broadcast. Part of it is appeasing advertisers, and some of it is them wanting to gain market share, but it's all business reasons. And those same business reasons apply to websites and podcasts.
It has rules in the exact same way that YouTube does.
this was a double plus good comment. really made me reflect on how I can better serve big brother.
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The homeless man's name? Diogenes.
That dumpster? A large pot in the city center.
That city center? The hyperspace bookshelf dimension from the ending of Interstellar.
The amount of rage bait packed into this one image is truly impressive.
It's not rage bait, it's mocking the rich
I thought they were talking about the censoring
The only ragebait is the needless censoring to get people to wonder why it's being censored so they share it, otherwise the mockery of economic propaganda is pretty based.
Fixed
We found the Epstein Files!
We did it lemmy
Holy Shit, is this the real SCP-001?
Don't you mean F***d?
I just realized they censored the posters fucking eyes
They censored "garbage".
Really? Wow, what a load of ~~rubbish~~
Edit: well, fuck me, they even censored ~~rubbish~~! Wait, what about ~~waste~~? Or ~~litter~~? Oh, FFS, bunch of cunts.
Every person eating out of a dumpster is a failure of the system. How has our economy not incentivized creating a method yet to maximize the wealth we could be extracting from these people?? We could slap a simple coin op slot onto those dumpsters and operate them like an unregulated vending machine. We could come up with a subscription model to allow monthly access to eating out of them. We could even figure out some form of alternative decentralized money system to get around FTC regulations and pesky labor laws on how we pay and receive the money from these homeless people. Capitalism is the greatest economic system ever created and we need to find a place in it for the homeless to contribute their fair share to the shareholders.
Exactly! I've also had it with these homeless people thinking they can just place an encampment wherever without paying someone. Don't they know free stuff is communism actually? I know the police clears them out once in a while, but that also costs valuable taxpayer money! Instead, why don't we rent them spots under bridges, and in return the police leave them alone? /s obviously
Why are people self-censoring "homeless" and "garbage"?
So plebs engage and tell them that the censorship annoys them and gives them engagement metrics
I believe "temporarily unhoused" is the emotionless HR term these days.
I'll grow and forage for my own food and alcohol specifically because it helps hinder GDP growth.
An unhoused man, you mean
Wait… People sit in parking lots?
Of course! Gotta wait on my guy to arrive with that ball.
They could be laying down lol
Seeing someone censor themselves like that makes me want to unalive them by stabby-stab.
You guys should really read the Russian version of 1984. The translators incorporated a lot of Soviet lingo into it. Which just is the icing on the cake.
i don't speak russian, can i just read a translation instead
that guy has to be trolling too hard...
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A homss man eating out of the garbe?
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