cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/23396300
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nickyflowers posts:it would be cool if websites let you be an adult on them. the advertisers and payment processors need everything to be Family Friendly though and their definitions of family and friendly are absolutely fucked. but since they're in charge of the Internet now, no one is allowed to be an adult. tiktokers say things like "unalive" and "seggs" because they know death and sex are too adult for online. online is for idiot babies only now because they're easier to market to
nickyflowers replies:
oh im sorry you're a trans adult? super ban. you are super banned for life. you have upset Visa's feelings. Mastercard is throwing up in the corner. how could you do this to Google Ads?
The euphemistic language trend is baffling to me. For sure it's not a censorship problem, right? Adding a synonym to a profanity dictionary is trivial, it wouldn't fool anybody for any amount of time.
It's just the natural progression of forbidden language.
I'm not sure of the filters but a really easy one is:
Dim is considered too rude, so use the medical term closest to it, 'retard', retard becomes to rude so you use disabled. Disabled becomes too rude so you use differently abled, and so on. Forever.
Or; commit suicide -> go kill yourself -> go jump off a bridge -> go commit die -> be self unalived
All censored words and ideas go through this, which is why you should improve the material conditions of people so they can have enough time to empathize with others and avoid saying particularly bad words and ideas.
When you apply it to really common words and ideas, it evolves even faster and dumber.
You are correct that it is the natural progression of this kind of censorship which is the reason this kind of censorship is a bad idea in the first place.