Mexican TikTokers have code words to report on narco-violence without getting banned
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Creators use euphemisms and emojis to get around what they say are arbitrary moderation restrictions.
  • jmcs@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    105·
    23 days ago

    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.

  • tlou3please@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    23 days ago

    The censorship on Tiktok is crazy. The AI based comment removal is completely arbitrary - for example, I once had a comment removed for calling a public figure a walnut. Meanwhile, the comments are absolutely packed with the most vile comments. In particular, for content relating to my country there are thousands of comments openly celebrating and glorifying the deaths of migrants and some seriously explicitly racist rhetoric. It leads to people using silly workarounds to content filters that must be trivially easy to identify automatically, but aren’t, raising the question of why bother with such extreme censorship in the first place?

  • Ogmios@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    249·
    23 days ago

    This is the kind of shit many of us have been trying to warn about when we push back against language police. It may be an easy argument to swallow when examples of actual bigotry are held up for you to see, but the systems which are created for such a purpose can and will be used to hide serious matters.

    • noodlejetski@lemm.eeEnglish
      16·
      23 days ago

      “I got banned from a subreddit for calling someone a retard in 2016 and this sole act of INJUSTICE against me has resulted in a Chinese company algorithmically removing content posted by users reporting on crime”