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WCAIS_PA_Individual t1_j2tsugh wrote

Why censor the word kill?

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TransFattyAcid t1_j2txnpv wrote

I'm not sure if it's true or not, but people believe IG's algorithm deprioritizes posts that mention "violent" or sexual words like kill, suicide, OnlyFans, etc. There's a lot of words people censor over there or use "cute" alternatives like "unalive" or "🌽⭐"

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WCAIS_PA_Individual t1_j2tyvt5 wrote

I feel sorry for people that use actual social media for information like this, because they obviously aren't getting a unbiased or even a slightly skewed information base.

I don't use IG, or FB, or LinkedIn (ew), or SnapChat, or Twitter for that matter (or Trumps platform)

People are way too easily emotionally controlled by those algorithms . Sad

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Von_Moistus t1_j2u9puo wrote

You see it on police interrogation videos on YouTube as well. Some guy will be telling the cops about how he dismembered a college student and mailed the body parts to foreign embassies, but if he happens to say the word “sex” then it gets muted. Gotta keep the algorithm happy. Strange.

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wellarmedsheep t1_j2ubqme wrote

Its all advertising.

Companies don't want their shit advertised on stuff that has negative connotations.

This honestly has a chilling effect of the type of content made. For example, try making a modern, information based videos on WWII. Youtube will demonetize it, so Youtube educators just... don't.

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damnscout t1_j2wqbhg wrote

There are other platforms you can put the videos up on. And they do it. And it's ad-free. You don't have the right to force people to buy something they don't want. People are still able to make the content they want and share it. Hell, even this subreddit has rules against certain types of content.

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wellarmedsheep t1_j2yka7j wrote

I agree you can't force advertisers to spend ad dollars if they don't want to.

I'll have to disagree that it hasn't had a chilling effect. I dont have the examples off hand, but I know for sure creators have stopped content because of the policy.

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damnscout t1_j34aqu3 wrote

If I didn’t know of literally other platforms that host excellent WW2 videos, I might agree with you. But no, they can make the content they want. They just want to get easy as money. That’s it.

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Anna-intravert t1_j2x59i6 wrote

I definitely dont want to hear about that. I am sure the cop doesn't care to either.

But give a punishment to a drunk drive that means something, not a bad idea.

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ramvan t1_j2v1d6c wrote

Corn star for porn star for only fans? Not 🦴🦵🍮? So disappointed in people.

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Monte2903 t1_j2wrfjy wrote

I got a 7 day ban from Facebook for hate speech. The video I posted was a duck named Jerry biting some girl in the title, and thr caption was "kill her jerry!"

Funny fucking video by the way

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dubdubdub3 t1_j2w6w1h wrote

It is true - recently IG even rolled out a feature that will let you see if your posts have been deemed too risqué/violent to be in “suggested”

Anything with overt sex or violence that the algorithm can pick up wont get suggested to other people they would have to find it themselves

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CocoaMotive t1_j2ubvbe wrote

It's so fucking dumb. People now do the same with the words woman and mother and write wom×n and moth×r. Apparently women existing in the English language is too triggering for some people now.

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I_am_Daesomst t1_j2ugrji wrote

Yeah, that's never gonna fucking happen here. I'm likely a lifelong Democrat because the other side is simply insane, and I'd describe myself as a liberal person. But, and I am literally laughing as I type this out because the whole thing is incredulous to me, it is just not going to happen.

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WCAIS_PA_Individual t1_j2ucu89 wrote

I want to know, is using the word "Eskimo" racist ? Like, in your head, think about it, would that be considered racist?

  • If yes, then I guess you don't know that Eskimo is derived from the definition of "askimew", a Cree word meaning "he laces snowshoes", linguists believe that may have been the original name the Crees used to refer to their Inuit neighbors.

  • If no, then you probably already know the definition and details about the word Eskimo . Good for you.

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dogmomdrinkstea t1_j2vi547 wrote

I mean, if you're not an indigenous person there then you don't get to decide if it's racist. No need to debate semantics.

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StagLee1 t1_j2vyjum wrote

Yes, for instance three of my relatives who are descendents of indigenous people refer to themselves as Indians, as did my friend John Trudell, spokesperson of the American Indian Movement (AIM) that took over Alcatraz. My relatives do not like the term Native American, so I do not use that term, but so called enlightened people say using the term Indian makes me sound racially insensitive and culturally ignorant.

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WCAIS_PA_Individual t1_j327irg wrote

Well Native American literally means they literally were native to a country that didn't exist until we stole their land. I'd be pissed if I was called that too.

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WCAIS_PA_Individual t1_j3279ph wrote

So if the locals call the locals something, I can't decide if it's racist or not if I am not a local?

Uh...

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dogmomdrinkstea t1_j32lqff wrote

Yeah. It's pretty simple. You don't get to decide what is offensive towards another race.

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WCAIS_PA_Individual t1_j336cww wrote

At best, it's a ethnicity , as defined by census bureau, and science .

Here you go.

>race is often perceived as something that's inherent in our biology, and therefore inherited across generations. Ethnicity, on the other hand, is typically understood as something we acquire, or self-ascribe, based on factors like where we live or the culture we share with others.

>major distinction between race and ethnicity: While race is ascribed to individuals on the basis of physical traits, ethnicity is more frequently chosen by the individual. And, because it encompasses everything from language, to nationality, culture and religion, it can enable people to take on several identities. Someone might choose to identify themselves as Asian American, British Somali or an Ashkenazi Jew, for instance, drawing on different aspects of their ascribed racial identity, culture, ancestry and religion.

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dogmomdrinkstea t1_j33gdfj wrote

And the first time I specifically said indigenous to that area, meaning Inuit (the correct term).

Man, you wanna have permission to be racist so bad. No use talking to a brick wall, see ya.

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WCAIS_PA_Individual t1_j34fvtw wrote

Stop race shaming actual Races with your uneducated responses .

BTW, indigenous was a determination of if an individual was "Negro" or born in the Americas

>As a reference to a group of people, the term Indigenous first came into use by Europeans who used it to differentiate the Indigenous peoples of the Americas from enslaved Africans. It may have first been used in this context by Sir Thomas Browne. In Chapter 10 of Pseudodoxia Epidemica (1646), entitled "Of the Blackness of Negroes", Browne wrote "and although in many parts thereof there be at present swarms of Negroes serving under the Spaniard, yet were they all transported from Africa, since the discovery of Columbus; and are not indigenous or proper natives of America."[5][6]

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point_breeze69 t1_j2ugbsc wrote

Fuck the Kree and anyone that supports those megalomaniacs!

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dogmomdrinkstea t1_j2vidq4 wrote

Are....are you saying Kree as in blue-skinned Marvel movie characters or Cree as in the indigenous tribe? Highly hope it's the former bc otherwise yikes.

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point_breeze69 t1_j2ws1hb wrote

You ever read those choose your own adventure books? I’ll let you decide as the reader. It’s more fun that way.

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aelis68 t1_j2un0q2 wrote

Because the algorithms would block the post and /or ban the account if they didn’t.

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[deleted] OP t1_j2tt5ga wrote

I am not sure why they did that but the message still gets across

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