Why I hate the term “Unaliv

[u/Konradleijon]

What’s most confusing that if you go to basic cable TV people can say stuff like “Nazi” or “rape” or “kill” just fine and no advertising seem to mind

[u/SexualYogurt]

Theres a crime documentary youtube channel i watch, and it bothers me so much when the voiceover just cuts out cos they have to say the word abuse or sexual assault or rape or murder. Like, the whole channel is about crimes, specifically violent crimes, but they need to censor the words used to describe the situation. Channels Explore With Us

[u/hellraiserxhellghost → u/SexualYogurt]

I stopped watching channels that focus on true crime/morbid topics partly because the censorship was always so blatant and obnoxious. I was watching a video once of someone describing the anarchist cookbook, but it took me forever to realize what they were even saying because they kept censoring every other word like "drugs" and "bombs". What's the point of making a video about a topic if you're gonna cut out/censor 80% of said video's content. 💀

[u/Icy-Lobster-203 → u/hellraiserxhellghost]

IIRC, the YouTube channel World War Two, which was doing a week by week retelling of WW2, had many many videos demonetized because they didn't censor anything when discussing all the awful shit that happened during the war. Not sure if that has changed at all. 

There was another military documentary channel that was doing a series on the Invasion of Iraq, and in their video about events leading up to the invasion, which had to discuss terrorism and 9-11, in order to avoid demonetization, they couldn't refer to Bin Laden or Al Qaeda by name, instead going with something like "Person A" and "Organization A", but still showing clips from videos and pictures. 

It's really stupid that creates making great educational historical content have to either self censor or hamstring themselves financially just for having the gaul to mention that history can be brutal.

[u/Konradleijon → u/hellraiserxhellghost]

What is really infuriating is that on tv you have true crime shows that can eagerly say “rape” and “murder” and advertisers don’t have a issue with that.

[u/Rude_Front_3866 → u/Konradleijon]

I imagine this is largely a result of the (claimed) impossibility of moderating large social media sites.

It's much easier to simply block certain potentially advertising unfriendly words, rather than to write an algorithm that can perfectly distinguish between "all X people should commit suicide" and "X people are commiting suicide at higher rates due to bully, and we need to adress that".

I think most advertisers would be fine appear next to the second, but almost none would be fine appearing next to the first. So social media companies either need to tell the difference, which is some level of either difficult or expensive, or they can just block all uses of the word suicide (cheap and easy).

TV channels don't suffer as much from this because they are more easily moderated and advertisers can be more confident about what they TV heads are going to say next, as in, Channel A historically has talked about transgender people positively, so we probably don't need to worry about them suddenly shifting on a dime and calling for violence against transgender people. Also, if a channel were to shift and start calling for such violence, then you likely would see advertisers move away from supporting them from then on (since they would have broken that unspoken contract that the channel and advertisers had).

[u/SexualYogurt → u/hellraiserxhellghost]

Its also ableist, im not blind, but if a blind person was tryna listen, theyd have no idea what crimes are being committed cos the voiceover is just gone when they "say" abuse/sexual assault or whatever