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Dot.@feddit.org to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

Mexican TikTokers have code words to report on narco-violence without getting banned.

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Mexican TikTokers have code words to report on narco-violence without getting banned.

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Dot.@feddit.org to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago
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Creators use euphemisms and emojis to get around what they say are arbitrary moderation restrictions.
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    Social media forcing people to see self-censorship as normal has to be in the top 5 of the most harmful things they are doing.

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      deleted by creator

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        cws/disclaimers are good
        censorship (including self-censlrship) is bad.

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          Content warnings seem to be useless or add stress

          https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/21677026231186625

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            The excellent podcast Search Engine has an episode on this topic with a guest expert in the field who absolutely agrees.

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            I definitely appreciate them. Its not useless.

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      It’s yet another dystopian online trend that China pioneered over a decade before the ‘free’ internet adopted it because money.

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        Instagram was already forcing people to self-censor before TikTok became a thing

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          Instagram or smart phones didn’t exist when China started it. This isn’t about TikTok starting anything.

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