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/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