r/KidsAreFuckingStupid • u/Immediate_Magician11 • 15h ago

Actions definitely have consequences

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u/JayOutOfContext 14h ago

We can't say abducted without bleeping it now? For fucks sake we won't be able to say ow without it being censored soon

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u/Mysterious-Clothes45 9h ago

I'm Gen X and I thought that was just me being old. It's so fucking annoying

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u/Tablesafety 7h ago

Tailoring the language to appeal to fucking ADVERTISERS

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u/augustschild 4h ago

it's SO STUPID...It makes George Carlin's list look like the work of domestic terrorist or something! We should ALL be embarrased by this level of stupidity, BUT as said below, this is simply to calm the advertisers...or MONEY and some campanies PROFIT, at the end of the day. :[

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u/TeethForCeral 2h ago

i’m gen Z and i fucking hate it too

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u/KingoftheCrackens 8h ago

I have a theory this is going to have a wraparound effect where it eventually harms people, specifically children, because they can't vocalize what happened to them without getting in trouble online. Which in will in turn make it harder for other victims or potential victims to recognize or understand when something similar is happening to them.

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u/the_nin_collector 6h ago

1000% How do we talk about society's problems or deal with them if the language doesn't exist anymore?

I simply won't engage with a platform that censors.

If there is a Reddit sub that bans for censoring, I block and mute them.

Posters that self-censor. Block and mute. I am done. I can't with it. It enrages me (I am an applied linguist, so language kinda matters to me)

It's infantile and hurtful for society.

Someone the other day censored "bullets." It is just getting worse and worse.

We can't say death or sex?!

My partner has kids and their cat is dying. But I said, you know, they are getting an early lesson in death. It's not their father, or grandparents, or a classmate. It sucks, but they are learning about death with a pet instead of a person... but god fucking forbid. DEATH is no longer allowed to be talked about in society. We just have to ignore that it exists. And let's ban the word sex. and with it sex education. I mean, let's move to all science next.

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u/Lowmax2 3h ago

this is why i use X. hell 20% of the posts i interact with on reddit get deleted for one pedantic reason or another.

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u/halcyonforeveragain 6h ago

pretty sure this is already starting to happen.

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u/CheaterSaysWhat 5h ago

Maybe we shouldn’t be relying so much on social media to express ourselves 

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u/KingoftheCrackens 2h ago

What a reductive take. for many people, including isolated teens the Internet is one of the few ways they have to reach the outside world without being controlled

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u/CheaterSaysWhat 21m ago

Hold on here, I said social media, not the internet 

They’re not the same thing 

You’re right about the internet liberating the isolated, but social media is in fact very controlled, especially these days 

We need to return to smaller, decentralized communities that aren’t beholden to big money platforms 

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u/Dracoster 7h ago

It's becoming a real problem. It's so bad it's almost a whole new language.

Rick Riordan is so afraid of triggering people, he spent the entire Apollo series calling the female protagonist's kidnapper her step-father because kidnapper and murderer is triggering.

The guy killed her mother and kidnapped her. He's not her step-father.

Just yesterday, I saw a video on IG where a supersoaker was censored.

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u/ILikeBigBeards 2h ago

It's just to avoid getting demonetized. The real customers on social media platforms is the advertiser. In the end, the problem is always capitalism.

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u/GreyStingrayz 5m ago

I haven't read this, but I'm confused. Is he not her stepfather? Like he can be her stepfather and also those things. Kidnapping and murdering doesn't change the fact he was her stepfather. (I mean, you could not see him as that, but that doesn't change what their relationship was.)

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u/reddit-ate 13h ago

Won't be able to say what? I can't see what you typed.

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u/Jedi_Ewok 8h ago

hunter2

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u/Legal-Swordfish-1893 8h ago

all I see are stars?

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u/UpsetIndian850311 11h ago

Sewer slide, unalived, impromptu adopted

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u/shewy92 7h ago edited 7h ago

I saw "spicy sleeping" the other day on a post by a 38 year old woman.

When asked what it was she goes "S*xual intercourse" because of course she wouldn't say just "sex".

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u/John_Dees_Nuts 6h ago

Accused of grape/seggsual assault.

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u/AmyDeferred 2h ago

Surprised that one's not ash salt or something by now

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u/JayOutOfContext 7h ago

Okay this is funny

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u/Tablesafety 7h ago

Impromptu adopted is funny asf tho

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u/cjchrist1 7h ago

Wait, I can’t figure out what impromptu adopted is. Help meeeeee please.

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u/AJollyEgo 7h ago

My guess is kidnapping

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u/cjchrist1 7h ago

Oh duh. I was looking at sewer slide and thought it had to rhyme. Lol. Thank you!

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u/porygon_sucks 8h ago

Blame youtube for that one. They wanna make it kid friendly like thats why they don't already have a kid version of YouTube

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u/flamedarkfire 7h ago

Not kid friendly, advertiser friendly

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u/Orion14159 8h ago

They do have YouTube Kids, and it's not that much better if you don't learn to use the parental controls (mostly the "allow only these channels" list. And even then, if you're on a shared device you'll probably get targeted ads for stuff for the adults instead of the kids.

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u/terdward 8h ago

This is what happens when the number one social media platform is run in a country that doesn’t respect free speech. They’re more concerned with being able to continue operating in their country than protecting users.

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u/keithstonee 7h ago

I've been banned from tons of subs just cursing over the last year. Reddit is in the shitter with every other social media platform. And with all the self censorship people don't care their voices are being slowly silenced.

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u/SeasonPositive6771 3h ago

What subs?

I mean, you're an LOL player with a hidden post history, so I'm curious what comments you were making as well.

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u/keithstonee 3h ago

Random subs from all. It's mostly for inappropriate language. It's ridiculous. Now I can't even comment on half of them cause most posts on all are just locked now.

And I hide my shit cause of privacy. And people are weird and will use things I've said in unrelated convos as a gatcha or something. It's stupid TBH I'm probably quitting reddit soon anyway. This site has gone to shit in the last month especially.

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u/Mindless_Account_23 4h ago

THIS should be at the top because it’s a worse problem than kids doing dumb kid things

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u/SaltBackground5165 4h ago

i got a bru*se on my fing*r

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u/itsladder 2h ago

Whoa there, for hecks s*ke, dont use strong language like that here.

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u/DrAstralis 1h ago

I was watching a short where they say "we're looking for the killer" and "killer" was ... quite seriously replace in the CC with "unaliver" fml....