I would really like a new age of social media that uses technology advances to monitor intent, not language.
Censoring someone from saying “I’ve made a lot of advances in my mental health since I was raped, but it feels like I’m hiding my whole struggle anytime I step out the door.” is ironically going to damage their mental health. Meanwhile, use of that word in many other sentences should obviously trigger a ban. And to go one further, many sentences with all “safe” words can be the most harmful.
I would even say that type of censorship leads people to falsely believe everything is fine in the world, and that causes like diversity initiatives or police reform are unnecessary.
I was trying to share a news article about the local police mishandling rape cases and there was literally no way I could phrase a description of it that wasn’t getting censored by social media. It was extremely disturbing to me that I would either have to explain it in extremely vague terms like you’d explain it to a child or just not share it at all. Meanwhile, actual fascist propaganda is being allowed on these platforms and staying up. It’s absurd.
I would really like a new age of social media that uses technology advances to monitor intent, not language.
Censoring someone from saying “I’ve made a lot of advances in my mental health since I was raped, but it feels like I’m hiding my whole struggle anytime I step out the door.” is ironically going to damage their mental health. Meanwhile, use of that word in many other sentences should obviously trigger a ban. And to go one further, many sentences with all “safe” words can be the most harmful.
I would even say that type of censorship leads people to falsely believe everything is fine in the world, and that causes like diversity initiatives or police reform are unnecessary.
I was trying to share a news article about the local police mishandling rape cases and there was literally no way I could phrase a description of it that wasn’t getting censored by social media. It was extremely disturbing to me that I would either have to explain it in extremely vague terms like you’d explain it to a child or just not share it at all. Meanwhile, actual fascist propaganda is being allowed on these platforms and staying up. It’s absurd.