Will this result in more spread of ridiculous euphemisms like unalive? Probably. Will this result in us being able to get people banned from social media for telling other people to kill themselves? Probably only with very intermittent enforcement.
Will this result in more spread of ridiculous euphemisms like unalive? Probably. Will this result in us being able to get people banned from social media for telling other people to kill themselves? Probably only with very intermittent enforcement.
Wars and death will end simply because people won't be able to discuss them.
Advertisers don't want their ads to appear next to certain keywords, platforms use content detection to match those criteria, so creators are monetarily incentivized to avoid them. Capitalism!
- Cute winter boots (ICE officers)
- Gardening (420)
- pdf/pdf file (pedophile)
- :watermelon-emoji: (Palestine)
- neurospicy (neurodivergent)
- bird website (X)
- LA Music festival tour (protests)
Not sure if I see more of the 'algospeak' because the problem is real, because I've interacted with algospeak content before and it's just giving me more of it, or if creators don't really need to do it anymore but just still do.
Though, these websites aren't driven by some misguided but well-meaning vision to treat society of its ills. They only care about making money, and advertisers have just converged on demanding that anything complimenting their ads be squeaky-clean, inoffensive, always happy. They dictate their preferences to services that primarily make money off ads. The way advertiser interests end up clashing with people's desire for free expression is just a side effect to them.
Another common element of both tiktok and instagram is how some posters try to advertise for Onlyfans without triggering a FOSTA/SESTA related ban.
People pretend that speech is weightless and has no consequences, even when that's shown not to be entirely true.