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Good comic with good message, but why do we censor the word rape like we're trying to avert our eyes from the truth?
The artist spoke about this on Reddit. Social media outlets automatically remove content with rape and ban the artists. She said she just can’t be bothered with the hassle so even though she dislikes doing it, she started self-censoring to comply.
As someone who has been browsing the web since the very beginning, young peoples' obsession with only using the same five websites and nothing else is so fucking bizarre to me. Don't like a particular platform's censorship? Use a different fucking platform! We've never had more options!
I agree as someone who held onto reddit for far too long. But if you're trying to reach a wide audience Lemmy doesn't really work for that.
network effect
you can say things like Die, or killed, which is ridiculous.
I thought because of the same reason the world "unalived" became a thing
I remember (from ages aggo) a list of things fb censored and which are ok.
In short anything slightly too sexual was off limits (that's probably not the case anymore by now).
And anything violent, horrific, grotesque,... was just fine and dandy.
Just to illustrate what a fucked up version of reality they try to cultivate there.
"I don't mind, I just do as I'm told, that's how you know the content is fresh af"
i mean i don't like it either but I'm glad the artist is able to spread their work so I can see it, if they insisted on taking a stand and stubbornly kept making art that was immediately censored I don't think this post would exist and that's worse than the current situation
You can spread any message you like, as long as it is censored in compliance with the ministry of truth.
If it's really that way, then it really sucks. Tho I cannot blame the artist, they gotta get this thing across somehow. I just wished the artist would at least create an alternate uncensored version or something..
I mean, yeah. When you’re on a platform you have to abide by that platform’s rules if you want to be able to keep posting on that platform.
That's what you choose to take away?
That's what you choose to criticise?
Here's a good advice for you: shut up. Stop posting. Stop thinking that your thoughts are valuable. They're the opposite.
They’re defending rape victims. Who are you to tell them to shut up?
Because everything has to be PG or people throw a fucking snowflake temper tantrum. Even though everyone knows the words they're obviously saying. It's like bleeping out cuas words on the radio. It's not like anyone over 4 doesn't know what they're saying.
As a side note I was an elementary teacher for a decade, your kids are sailors at school, even if you think they're angels.
Idk where you got the idea that it is the people who want this bullshit. Literally everywhere you see this kind of censorship, people are complaining that it's there.
It's fucking corporate run spaces and their AI moderation that will stifle the reach of posts or just straight up remove them if they don't follow the arbitrary censorship rules that is forcing content creators to self censor themselves in order to have their posts be visible on the major social media platforms.
But why do corporations want to censor bad words when they don't care if their products are harming or even killing people?
Because they can't show certain types of ads in proximity to certain things.
They have agreemeents with ad-buyers etc.
Usually it's about nudity or swearing but probably non-PG or nsfw topics wre included in some too.
It's not a surprise that advertisers and PR firms are ruining society on countless levels. These are the people who invented billboards and popup ads after all.
Because the minds of the owning class that run these companies are twisted and only care about the Almighty Profit Incentive™
They don't care if their products are harming people because they don't care about you, the consumer, after you've bought the product. They got their profit out of you. Any bad press about it can be minimized with marketing campaigns to obscure the facts from the general, uninformed public. Prime example of this is Big Tobacco's efforts over the decades to hide the harmful effects of smoking before they could no longer keep a lid on it.
The censorship nonsense is surrounded by arbitrary, prudish culture bullshit which ad companies care about because they want to be able to market to the widest available audience, so they don't want to purchase ad space with platforms that permit anything controversial, thus platforms which rely on ad revenue for profit choose to enforce censorship so that those ad companies will choose to buy their ad space.
When asking "why do companies do [X]" it is always about profit.
Of course it's about profit, but how does censorship increase profits? In the end, I think it is because people don't want to see bad words when they are doing something that's supposed to make them feel good: consuming.
Advertisers would happily use bad words if that would increase their sales, but I assume it actually hurts their sales, so they don't want them anywhere near their ad campaigns.
Yea, that's what I explained at the end there. Bad words would hurt their sales, so they don't want to advertise on sites that don't censor to avoid being associated. So the websites, which rely on ad revenue for their profits, are the ones who engage in censorship to attract companies into buying their ad space, thus ensuring profitability.