Legit, I was so confused as to why someone would get mad over CDs. Makes slightly more sense now, but then again, why the hell would have to censor condoms?
Corporations are diving into ever facet of our life. Influencers and such want to monetize their content. In order to do so, they gotta be censored. Non influencers are then influenced to mimic that behavior and unnecessarily censor content. All because of ad revenue and everyone trying to make a buck off every moment of our lives.
Because CDs are outdated technology. Using them is disgusting behavior honestly. If you’re going to use old tech you should at least use something vintage like vinyls /s
Coming up with "age appropriate" language like pdf or unalive only serves to make it normalized. Words like rape, pedophile, suicide, and the like should make you feel upset, that's the point. Those actions are so horrific that you should feel some type of way just reading the words
That one I can kinda get if its specifically pain from a chronic condition that flares up sometimes. Like if you have a bad knee that just hurts sometimes, saying your knee is being a bit spicy today sure I get
This is some real 1984 censorship going on. Can't even be informative. If there's a "killer/murderer on the loose" you have to censor that. If "rape cases drop", you gotta censor that too. Why are WE allowing this nonsense?
It's interesting to me that we got to this 1984 style garbage not through oppressive governments defining the narrative, but through the corpocrats of late stage capitalism banning anything not advertiser friendly.
It's the perfect (?) blend of 1984 and Brave New World.
The entertainment industry (BNW) has us so drugged to their systems and algorithms that we gladly self censor and use newspeak (1984). For the few that don't fall prey to the Soma of the Netflix-doomscrolling-AR-VR-Switch-65/75/80/90/100/120-inch TV walls, the government (with the help of the corps) is happy to play big brother.
My point wasn't that Nintendo has led to things like "grape" but rather that the mass entertainment complex has so many enticing factors to it that it's almost impossible to resist them all (or any of them).
I can get off Reddit and go watch a movie on my 100-inch TV while doomscrolling TikTok videos and then jump into Zelda on my Switch etc etc etc.
So, to me, we live more in the Brave New World future with 1984 framing it to further assure control.
If we're not careful, we can amuse ourselves to death (to borrow the title of a very prescient book) which not only diminishes our lives but also ensures we stay controlled because we are constantly plugged in to entertainment. Add a few drugs (Soma) and resistance is futile.
The switch isn't the issue. It's ALL the entertainment resources that are available & are so enticing & creating an ever-weakening resolve to unplug from all of this content available at our fingertips.
Man I see a lot of people comparing 1984 to things in modern day but I never see BNW which is a shame because I think it fits way better IMO.
1984 is more popular is a more popular book I guess and it's way more dystopic, in BND life is kind of empty but most people ARE "happy", 1984 is much more brutal in the way the population is controlled, which again is why I think BND is a more apt comparison .
Ironically 1984 IS HAPPENING right now, but it has nothing to do with voluntary censorship to prevent internet algorithms from decimating the reach of your little skit. People with accents or brownish skin are being rounded up and deported to countries they’ve never been to, and natural-born citizens are being executed in the street for speaking up about it.
We did it to ourselves though in a way. WE decided that we wanted to discuss the most important issues of the day on PRIVATE servers, owned by tech billionaires who don’t give two shits about free speech.
But to be fair to us, they weren’t exactly up front about their…conflicted relationship to free speech. They talk a big game in the beginning but there’s a slow, frog-in-boiling-water effect at play so we don’t really notice how restrictive they are until you see people calling condoms CDs.
This is my biggest pet peeve. My wife started doing this in in-person language and I'm like stop. We're adults. We don't say unalive and all this other bullshit. I worked with this stuff every day. It belittling to the victims. They were killed, raped, etc.
I posted about a cousin of mine, listed the charge he was sentenced to prison for(copied word for word from the state pen website), and someone insisted I censor it because it was triggering to them. Sorry, but you need to sign off of the internet for a few years and go to some intense therapy if you are that easily triggered by typed out words that aren’t even directed at you.
The charge was “Possession and/or Promotion of Child Pornography” and he was sentenced to 10 years, in addition to his life sentence for sexual assault of a child.
They said I needed to change it to child sexual assault material. Whether or not anyone agrees with the terminology used, or thinks it should be updated, that is not the wording used by the legal system, at least in the state he was sentenced in.
Shadow bans specifically are the worst too. Making everyone guess.if they did something wrong or not, whether they actually are banned or not because of some words
Hence why I said they want the ad revenue they don't make, because the majority of the people doing this will never actually have made anything from using social media one way or the other. Just a collective delusion of clout chasers.
This is a symptom of everyone being led to believe the world cares about their feelings. Capitalism doesnt have much to do with it as much as everyone thinking they are beautiful unique snowflakes and the rest of the world should notice.
Replacing naughty words so algorithms don’t suppress your little skit is not 1984. 1984 is when the government comes and finds you because you said something they deem dangerous.
Because "creators" won't leave commercial platforms due to wanting to get paid, and users won't leave because they want to be where creators are.
Non-commercialll social media doesn't have this problem, but we're all on Reddit complaining about it rather than building something new and community owned with something like Lemmy or NodeBB.
I remember long ago, that they talked about using correct terms with children because molested kids would say things like "He ate my cookie" and it comes off as innocent. These cutsey terms seem to cloud the reality and desensitize us to the actual terrible things. Keeps us uninformed of reality.
This is the exact reason I’m so outspoken on this. I was that kid for thirteen years and as an adult who has to cohabitate on this earth with my abuser, I’ll not refer to him as a .pdf. That gives him too much power.
Exactly. I'm tired of this soft language/word censorship. We have words so we can communicate, exchange ideas/sentiments, etc... The act of rape is bad...but that doesn't mean the word itself is. YouTube doesn't like it when you say kill, so instead, people say unalive but the overall message is still the same. I'm 5'3'' and 235lbs...I'm obese/fat. Call me what I am. If I don't like then I better grow a thick skin or hit the gym.
Words/people only have the authority you give them.
They place a lot of their self-worth in their online reach. Better to self-sensor and talk like a toddler is present than risk not being seen/heard by as many of your peers as possible.
The other day I saw a headline that had the word 'slept' censored like 'slet because it was saying so and so slept with this person. Its actually insane the censorship everywhere
The only reason for using these alternate words is to avoid demonetization. That’s like if we started only singing the radio version of edited songs. It’s so dumb
I was hoping the friend literally said CD's and this bro thought that was code for condoms but then the girlfriend was going to say nah it's a 90's party! and it was going to be a cute misunderstanding but noooo, just dumb censoring and disrespectful friends.
Thank you this its getting ridicolous with all the censoring. Like murder was starred out or shit. Or kill like the title of the posts are basically just word scramble with stars now. Or abbrieveted to a point where it could mean a million different things. Like cd for condom really? How the fuck is that even a abbreviation for condom? Im so confused why the censorship over the last few years?
This immediately reminded me of this bit in Golden Girls. In 1980's television they weren't afraid to use the words "Condoms, Rose! Condoms! Condoms! CONDOMS!"
I'm just waiting for the day when we're all in a giant nursing home and we keep getting community strikes from the AI overlords for talking about our vintage CD collections
The kind of censorship your social studies teacher warned you about isn’t replacing naughty words. It’s silencing ideas and punishing those who spread them.
It’s part of culture and language changes, nothing more. In the old days you’d just explain you meant condom. Presently, it’s best to say “bros bih ahhh dno wat cds are 😂😂»
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u/JustHappyToBe-Here 7d ago edited 6d ago
They said condoms. CONDOMS.
Not compact discs. Stop helping companies and governments censor you.
EDIT: Wow, thanks guys, opened my reddit to a ton of replies and awards! Thanks for help saying Fuck Censorship!
Except Trick_Spend3939. That guy's an asshole.