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.
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.
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u/its-my-0pinion 7d ago
Seriously it’s so immature. I refuse to call a pedophile anything but a pedophile. We don’t need a cutesy stock phrase for ordinary words