The idea of changing my speech so my words look nice next to a Toyota advertisement fills me with disgust and anger.
I wish those outraged with liberal "cancel-culture" would actually care about free speech, instead of only wh3n it suits their narratives.
But often, people in social media are just looking for attention by deliberately inciting outrage, posting their “hot takes” and making controversial statements—and then when other people with opposing views reply to disagree, the original posters start crying about “cancel culture” when, in fact, it’s just plain old disagreement in public discourse.
What needs to happen here is for people to take accountability in what they post in social media, and to take it as seriously as saying their opinions out loud in a physical, public space. If you’re deliberately inciting anger by saying something that puts a group of people at a disadvantage, don’t be surprised if someone from that group stands up to fight back. Your right to free speech does not mean protection from humiliation for the stupid things that you say in public.
I doubt that even something as 'light' on that spectrum as Hacker News is worthwhile enough compared to the non-social-media alternatives. (As a reminder, you can have a tree-like discussion structure without an upvote system.)
You can use all those words, but then, the theory goes, STT and OCR interprets the "bad" words and limits the reach of them.
That behavior also highlights how people within those services care so much about reach, clout, 'going viral', instead of communicating with other people.
Really? As compared to what?
I would have said Japanese is the language that actually lacks in this department.