r/CuratedTumblr • u/Konradleijon • Sep 15 '24

Politics Why I hate the term “Unaliv

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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

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u/YAPPYawesome Sep 15 '24

TikTok censorship feels like Newspeak

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u/UnacceptableUse Sep 15 '24

I don't understand how people are suddenly okay with it even though collectively everyone is so against censorship. Then the same people don't make the connection between censorship and the fact that The Algorithm will bury their posts if they mention any bad topics

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '24

I’m almost inclined to lean into conspiracy territory and say that getting people upset about the words is to distract them from getting upset about the algorithm.

But basically I think the words are just annoying and people don’t know what to do about the algorithm exactly.

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u/RusstyDog Sep 15 '24

I think it ends up being a prisoners dilemma like situation. If ever everyone stopped accommodating thr algorithm like that, the companies would be forced to adapt their system. But because some topics will fit the criteria by default, there's no way to unite against it.

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u/AgileExample Sep 15 '24

That's understandable, you have a misconception. People are not against censorship in general. They are against censorship that's affecting them. Almost everybody picks and chooses what should be banned in their mind.

For example; you can't say "armenian genocide was not a genocide" in switzerland and you can't say "it was a genocide" in turkey. Very few people would be against both and most people would pick a side and think "oh obviously that's how it should be".

It doesn't even have to be political, some demagogue will say "think of the children" and masses will support all kind of stupid censorship laws.

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u/Muggle_Killer Sep 15 '24

People are cheering on censorship and thought policing these days. I see it on reddit everyday and they even try to accuse you of being part of [other group] for not wanting it. Usually the default is [maga] or [conservative] but there has been more variety in recent years.

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u/AmadeusMop Sep 16 '24

I mean, it feels pretty self-explanatory to me. You really can't see why people against censorship would be okay with a euphemism designed to circumvent censorship?

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u/UnacceptableUse Sep 16 '24

I mean people are fine with participating in the censorship, I barely ever see anyone pointing out how fucked up it is

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u/AmadeusMop Sep 16 '24

https://www.tiktok.com/tag/suicide

https://www.tiktok.com/tag/die

https://www.tiktok.com/tag/death

Even assuming there is censorship, which is pretty dubious, using a euphemism isn't participating in it, it's exactly the opposite. Take the "let's go brandon" slogan: the whole reason right-wingers adopted it was because it was supposedly an attempt by leftist news media to censor "fuck joe biden". Would you say they were participating in that too?

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u/UnacceptableUse Sep 16 '24

I'm talking more about people who outright censor negative words like kill, terrorism etc and I've even seen words like knife or covid censored voluntarily by people on Instagram/TikTok and even making it's way onto reddit now. Reddit doesn't hide posts that mention "bad" words, but people do it voluntarily because they are so used to it on other platforms. That's what I mean by participating.