It's fascinating that "advertisement" is effectively the large-scale way of manipulating as many people as possible into something that they wouldn't otherwise want, all backed by big money.

Consider that the primary worth of big tech companies like Google and Meta is effectively their potential to advertise, and these companies are the most highly rated stocks in the world. That shows you how much money can be extracted by professionally manipulating people, and how big of a deal this really is.

Advertisement must be recognized as something that hurts the people, and must be shunned.

Maybe this is because I’m an old gen x, but I do not self censor online. Ban me, mute me, downvote me…I don’t give a fuuuuuccccckkkk!

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Tumblr is marking posts as adult just for being posted by transgender people

I fucking hate them because they arose to deal with algos.

People should not fucking please the machine. They are there to serve US

Quite literally 1984.

They'll just ban the new terms eventually if they get big enough.

If only there were social media platforms which aren't controlled by advertisement revenue.

I sometimes find it really hard to understand why people keep subjecting themselves to these kind of things.

this post made me commit sewerslide

IMO platforms that filter such words are in need of replacement. Easier said than done, but best acknowledged as soon as possible.

I'm all for political correctness.

Or good old fashioned politeness as it used to be called before the right-wing got all pissy about it.

It's cringy because they are letting advertisers direct culture.

I suppose it's like someone saying "duck" instead of "fuck"; or those old curse filters in online games that blocked words like "analysis" so it became @nalysis instead.

What you're seeing is a mix of "professionalisation" and "protect the children" - essentially "you are in a place of work that has children" when you're on a platform. This is, of course, completely fucking nuts and defies logical analysis.

Folks find a way round, so you end up with work around terms, and the like. What we really need is a "kidsnet" - a heavily filtered version of the net for kids that limits communication options and auto filters content.

I saw a YouTube video recently in which the word "drinking" was censored. It's ridiculous.

Advertising is an incoherent industry where it is generally understood and accepted for people to pay to not receive the product. Pay your advertising protection money or your content will be interrupted. Absolute racketeering.

I have been downvoted to hell for saying this exact thing on Lemmy

Social media just became an outlet for some people to let out steam. Unfortunately, not all people are able to turn around to fix their own personal issues, but instead end up succumbing tragically because they feel they no longer have power, and so they publicize their final deed, literally issuing their suicide notes online. That's why you have these social media corporations seeking to control suicide ideation by means of removing language connected to suicide.

I mostly feel the same way, but it's not without purpose. It allows for discussions of those issues on platforms that would otherwise ban it. Platforms like tiktok are so far reaching that it's almost an acceptable trade.

It's allowing the use of a platform that would otherwise be unavailable, instead of being relegated to the dark corners of the internet where no one will see it. Awareness is the first step.

I remember when "an hero" was used, was always surprised people moved to "unalive"