Oh dear. Now you’ve done it.
FUCK
Not according to Reddit, who has gotten ridiculously ban-happy
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.”
Well I suppose if you wanted to then you could. I mean I don’t swear when I speak so I don’t feel I need to online.
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”.
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.
Self-censoring swearing and serious topics will never not be ridiculous to me. I especially dislike the trend if censoring them by replacing letters with numbers/symbols, because I don’t see that well…
Right? If you don’t want to swear you don’t need to swear, what’s the point of using asterisks lol
Specially on lemmy where there’s no algorithm to begin with
I’m fine with self-censorship so long as it’s also self-aware and funny, llike that D&D group on youtube where they replace penis with “schmenis”, that outright elevates things.
Ideally take the opportunity to be creative with euphemisms, blur the line between censorship and art.I learned all of my Chinese from Firefly
I loved how Blade Trinity at least recognized the absurdity (for TV channels that required censorship)…
Original:
- Hannibal King: How about you take a sugar-frosted fuck off the end of my dick?
- Danica Talos: And how about everyone here not saying the word “dick” anymore? It provokes my envy.
Censored:
- Hannibal King: How about you take a sugar-frosted fuck off the end of my Woohoo?
- Danica Talos: And how about everyone here not saying the word “Woohoo” anymore? It provokes my envy.
This is also exactly why I was never interested in places like TikTok even befitting they bent the knee to the US, not gonna lie.
Culpeppers! Straight culpeppers!
