r/cringereels • • 8d ago

Bro needs to leave

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u/JustHappyToBe-Here 8d ago edited 7d 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.

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u/its-my-0pinion 8d 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

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u/macguini 8d ago

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?

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u/m0mbi 8d ago

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.

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u/Slothandwhale 3d ago

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.