online "content creators" always censor controversial terms like "kill" or "genocide" or "bomb" or "assassination" because the algorithm deprioritizes or demonetizes them if they don't. They have started saying "unalive" instead of kill. Love to have our language directed and policed by this shit.
Love to have our language directed and policed by this shit.
This type of thing bothers me immensely as well. It won't be long before social media companies start hand choosing innocuous words associated with labor movements to give the algorithmic suppression treatment to. In fact, I'm 100% sure they already do it under our noses. This is why projects like Lemmygrad and Hexbear fill me with hope. The left can't use the internet to organize until we have decentralized social media kept firmly away from profit seeking.
Love to have our language directed and policed by this shit
What's worse is that this is quite literally how Newspeak worked in 1984 (not banning words, but changing them to remove nuance and depth), but everyone just cheerfully accepts it while calling everything else as being like 1984
online "content creators" always censor controversial terms like "kill" or "genocide" or "bomb" or "assassination" because the algorithm deprioritizes or demonetizes them if they don't. They have started saying "unalive" instead of kill. Love to have our language directed and policed by this shit.
This type of thing bothers me immensely as well. It won't be long before social media companies start hand choosing innocuous words associated with labor movements to give the algorithmic suppression treatment to. In fact, I'm 100% sure they already do it under our noses. This is why projects like Lemmygrad and Hexbear fill me with hope. The left can't use the internet to organize until we have decentralized social media kept firmly away from profit seeking.
What's worse is that this is quite literally how Newspeak worked in 1984 (not banning words, but changing them to remove nuance and depth), but everyone just cheerfully accepts it while calling everything else as being like 1984
WatsonSmA.I.th by IBM
1984
:19::84: but unironically. I really need to read that book again.