cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/23396300
show transcript
nickyflowers posts:
it would be cool if websites let you be an adult on them. the advertisers and payment processors need everything to be Family Friendly though and their definitions of family and friendly are absolutely fucked. but since they’re in charge of the Internet now, no one is allowed to be an adult. tiktokers say things like “unalive” and “seggs” because they know death and sex are too adult for online. online is for idiot babies only now because they’re easier to market to
nickyflowers replies:
oh im sorry you’re a trans adult? super ban. you are super banned for life. you have upset Visa’s feelings. Mastercard is throwing up in the corner. how could you do this to Google Ads?
You must log in or register to comment.
That’s the corporate web: sterile, intrusive, manipulative, endless list of negative descriptors.
It’s why you gotta take whatever’s of value from it and put it elsewhere so you can get away from it as much as possible. Then spend more of your time using the public web intentionally for things that you enjoy and interest you, instead of allowing the corporate web to use you.
The euphemistic language trend is baffling to me. For sure it’s not a censorship problem, right? Adding a synonym to a profanity dictionary is trivial, it wouldn’t fool anybody for any amount of time.
It’s just the natural progression of forbidden language.
I’m not sure of the filters but a really easy one is:
Dim is considered too rude, so use the medical term closest to it, ‘retard’, retard becomes to rude so you use disabled. Disabled becomes too rude so you use differently abled, and so on. Forever.
Or; commit suicide -> go kill yourself -> go jump off a bridge -> go commit die -> be self unalived
All censored words and ideas go through this, which is why you should improve the material conditions of people so they can have enough time to empathize with others and avoid saying particularly bad words and ideas.
When you apply it to really common words and ideas, it evolves even faster and dumber.
you should improve the material conditions of people so they can have enough time to empathize with others
I just want to applaud this absolute gem hidden sneakily in this comment. Well done. Like, get out of here with that excellent anti-capitalism, pro-social, pro-human logic.
I hereby declare this statement to be the new rule of law by which all of society should be run.
One of the few things I thought that Maddox (“The Best Page in the Universe”) got right was his viewpoint on ads. He refused to run them because he didn’t want to have to censor himself to not offend the advertisers.
