It isn’t like the old days. Religious people are among us now.
I can think of a word no one’s brave enough to say…
Floccinaucinihilipilification
But I don’t want to.
FUCK
Oh dear. Now you’ve done it.
Not according to Reddit, who has gotten ridiculously ban-happy
I got banned from a subreddit for linking to another subreddit…
No you can’t. An internet police vehicle has been dispatched to your location. You’ll be confiscated and placed in the silly room for one fortnight.
May God have mercy on your soul.
Oh crackers!
Frell! Frick! Frak! Fsck!
I use voice dictation a lot. When I use it for work I need to censor myself.
When I come to Lemmy I’m not going to go through the trouble of finding the voice dictation setting 12 layers deep so that it won’t censor the word fuck.
Inadvertently some assholes comes along after every one spicy comments to let me know I can say fuck on the internet.
F*** them.
Except for me. **** is my password so if I type **** Lemmy automatically sensors it.
You fool! Now I can steal your credit card information using… The login to a social media platform without in app purchases…
No it isn’t. I just tried and it doesn’t even meet minimum character length
fuck
On the Intenet
Darmok and Galad
At Tenagra
My internet is appalled
Meanwhile on Youtube “This PDF File Game-Ended himself because he was caught with Child SA Corn and now he’s unalive.”
God that’s fucking annoying. The other week I was listening to a podcast that also has episodes on YouTube. They were talking about farming and had to bleep the word ‘rapeseed’. The fuck are we doing guys.
You used to be able to watch beheadings online, now a farmer can’t even talk about his crops online without the censorship police getting involved…
And pedophile and rape.
Please stop making serious topics sound so unserious.
What you’re referring to is a recent trend of social media platforms enforcing a wordlist ban, causing people to resort to using “newspeak”, coined from the book 1984.
Newspeak was a language where negative words were not allowed. You can literally see it on platforms like TikTok, where people say “unalive” instead of “kill”, “seggs” instead of “sex”, or “oui’d” instead of “weed”.
oui’d” instead of “weed”.
My french is in pain 🥖
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algospeak
Algospeak is the use of coded expressions to evade automated moderation algorithms on social media platforms such as TikTok and YouTube. It is used to discuss topics deemed sensitive to moderation algorithms while avoiding penalties such as shadow banning or downranking of content.
Thank you, I wasn’t aware of this term!
You’re welcome. I only learned of it myself a few weeks ago.
i don’t think newspeak is a good term for it, that implies an authority is forcing specific language onto people to limit their communications
what’s happening is the precise opposite, people are inventing new language to keep communicating the same things despite being censored, it’s the exact same thing that happened in hong kong with the chinese censorship.
That’s a good point! I’ve always heard it referred to as newspeak, but there is indeed a small but important distinction between the two.
The end result is similar, but the way there is the opposite (blocking vs enforcing)
I think comparing it to newspeak is still a good warning however, as they are caused by similar pressures applied in different ways, but algospeak is the more accurate term.
I got off of tiktok a while ago because of the newspeak stuff. Hearing someone describe the horrors of Katrina while saying things like that was my last straw.
And it invades other platforms that don’t do it too because people are just so used to using it.
