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Turns out it wasn't the authoritarian governments that would rewrite the dictionary, it was tech corporations appeasing advertising and payment corporations.
I mean, said corporations are empowered to be able to do this by authoritarian governments that are largely bought and paid for by said corporations, who now run said failed democracies as puppet governments of corporate interests.
It all sounds like something that Douglas Adams would write.
Or Sir Terry Pratchett is you replaced "corporations" with "guilds".
Is there even a difference when those corporations collectively own the government?
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They'll just ban the new terms eventually if they get big enough.
It's just another form of taboo for the euphemism treadmill honestly. Like there was a time that what a lot of people now know as the r-slur was a term to try to destigmatize those conditions. When that was the polite and civilized way to refer to someone with developmental or intellectual disabilities. This is just a taboo created top down rather than bottom up.
I mean, when I did physics in high school (in Norwegian) the correct term for something slowing down was retardation, as opposed to speeding up, acceleration.
I wonder if this still is the case, the dictionary is updated all the time, as words take on new meaning, and that's fine. I'm not fussed by the whole master to main in git, for example, though I'd prefer trunk.
I will get unnecessarily vocal if someone makes a point of saying that it's pronounced jif though...
it's definitely still used in aviation, because that kind of thing can never change lest people fucking die because a pilot got confused.
i imagine it's quite a thing to hear the "retard, retard, retard" alarm the first time as an english speaker
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If only there were social media platforms which aren't controlled by advertisement revenue.
I sometimes find it really hard to understand why people keep subjecting themselves to these kind of things.
because advertisment companies pay content creators either directly or indirectly, and many people stick around platforms to watch their favourite content creators. being funny online has become a day job for many, and with the job market being the way it is being an "influencer", even if a niche one, pays better than a "real" job.
i'm not trying to excuse anyone here, it just is the way it is. do i like it? not really. but i also wouldn't want people who make a living working as "online funny person/influencer" to suddenly lose their income. if we got rid of ad companies a lot of things would have to change at the same time for nobody to get hurt in the process.
when i stop being broke i'm going to sign up for nebula, that place seems to be trying to change things for the better in this regard
Aw man nebula is great. I totally recommend it to anyone with the extra disposable income. I got into it because Dr. Simon Clark (climate scientist YouTuber) had a discount link on one of his videos and it turned out that a bunch of other creators I like are on it, like HelloFutureMe and NotJustBikes. The only thing I feel like it’s missing is comments on videos, but I get that moderating that would be a lot, and while I like to know what other people think, I’m willing to sacrifice that for an overall better experience
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People do this shit on Lemmy too where there is no reason to.
In fairness, that's mostly through memes that have been nicked from other,more ad-laden sites.
I've seen it on text posts and comments
I habitually downvote all unnecessary censorship here
Death, death, to the IDF!
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Maybe this is because I’m an old gen x, but I do not self censor online. Ban me, mute me, downvote me…I don’t give a fuuuuuccccckkkk!
We're on Lemmy. No advertisers to alienate!
Still plenty of power-tripping mods, though.
I got banned from like 12 communities I never visited because one mod got pissy I was downvoting their low quality memes every time they came on my feed.
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I saw a YouTube video recently in which the word "drinking" was censored. It's ridiculous.
Quite literally 1984.
double plus exactly
The problem is always the money, for example YouTubers get paid because of publicities, that's why they say "unalived" and not killed, because if they do they get demonetised.
Or banned ofc.
That's why I like it here, you can say penis and not get spermabanned.
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Let's murder kill suicide our rape drugs molestation stories to death. I like no ads on Lemmy, though.
IIRC the unalive and grape garbage didn’t start out being an advertiser thing, it was a China thing because that who controls your brain aka TikTok.
It might be an advertiser thing now, but it’s also always been a hostile foreign government thing too.
People were using "unalive" on YouTube before TikTok even existed.
For those keeping score in the audience, there was a 2013 episode of Ultimate Spider Man that used "unalive", and Tik Tok launched in 2016.
It kind of surprised me.
I have been downvoted to hell for saying this exact thing on Lemmy
Just use the word “oligarchs” instead of “advertiser” because that resets the tech brains.
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It's fascinating that "advertisement" is effectively the large-scale way of manipulating as many people as possible into something that they wouldn't otherwise want, all backed by big money.
Consider that the primary worth of big tech companies like Google and Meta is effectively their potential to advertise, and these companies are the most highly rated stocks in the world. That shows you how much money can be extracted by professionally manipulating people, and how big of a deal this really is.
Advertisement must be recognized as something that hurts the people, and must be shunned.
I was amused when I learned PDF file. As in Jeffrey Jones is a PDF file.
Donald_Trump.pdf
I fucking hate them because they arose to deal with algos.
People should not fucking please the machine. They are there to serve US
On the other hand, there’s something kind of beautiful about the way language is able to adapt to hostile conditions.
Strangely, the linguistic contortions of social media are one of the few things that give me hope that LLMs won’t completely destroy mass communication.
"Unalive linguistic enshitification!"
Tumblr is marking posts as adult just for being posted by transgender people
It's cringy because they are letting advertisers direct culture.
this post made me commit sewerslide
IMO platforms that filter such words are in need of replacement. Easier said than done, but best acknowledged as soon as possible.
I'm all for political correctness.
Or good old fashioned politeness as it used to be called before the right-wing got all pissy about it.
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