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Imagine needing to say p*rn when reporting on this

wand3r 1y ago
Yes, this is a very weird development for a millennial like me. I think this is a GenZ/Gen Alpha thing born out of steep surveillance enforced by the policies of streaming services chatrooms and TikTok. It really seems like the younger generation has really kowtoked to advertisers and self censor words I would consider benign. It honestly disgusts me.
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- smcin 1y ago
  Not necessarily, it's desirable for articles to be accessible from work and corporate firewalls, and lists of banned words exist. This was already the case before streaming services or TikTok existed.
  - bji9jhff 1y ago
    I think the existence of a corporate firewall filtering words like "porn", or any word actually, is part of the steep surveillance he's talking about.
    - smcin 1y ago
      I understood what he claimed, but it's neither a GenZ/Gen Alpha thing, nor did it start with streaming services or TikTok.
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- delfinom 1y ago
  Too bad the self censoring is really making censoring harder. I love that "pdf file" is used in place of pedophile.
- roncesvalles 1y ago
  Late GenZ and GenA censorship is to substitute the word entirely -- porn is "corn", dead is "unalive", ass becomes "ahh", sex worker is "accountant". Asterisking is old-fashioned.
  - smcin 1y ago
    Punctuation, numbers-for-letters (L337) and strategic misspellings are also your friend.
  - tbrownaw 1y ago
    > sex worker is "accountant" The others are understandable enough, but what's up with this one?
    - dragonwriter 1y ago
      Its substituting a job you can't talk about without risking repercussions on some platforms with one you can. I don't think its a lot deeper than that, and that the substitution is essentially arbitrary (though I do think it was chosen because it has an extreme opposite social valence, with accountant being among the jobs with the most laced-up, boring, vanilla perception available.)
  - dragonwriter 1y ago
    Those are, as I undersand, mostly TikTok-isms (designed around actual and perceived TikTok censorship) more than generational patterns that have escaped (but somewhat attenuated) to other contexts ("unalive" is particularly common in other social media, the rest not so much.)
userbinator 1y ago
A rather famous cryptographer has a last name of Pornin. I wonder how often his name trips filters.

Yes, this is a very weird development for a millennial like me. I think this is a GenZ/Gen Alpha thing born out of steep surveillance enforced by the policies of streaming services chatrooms and TikTok. It really seems like the younger generation has really kowtoked to advertisers and self censor words I would consider benign. It honestly disgusts me.

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smcin 1y ago
Not necessarily, it's desirable for articles to be accessible from work and corporate firewalls, and lists of banned words exist. This was already the case before streaming services or TikTok existed.
- bji9jhff 1y ago
  I think the existence of a corporate firewall filtering words like "porn", or any word actually, is part of the steep surveillance he's talking about.
  - smcin 1y ago
    I understood what he claimed, but it's neither a GenZ/Gen Alpha thing, nor did it start with streaming services or TikTok.
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delfinom 1y ago
Too bad the self censoring is really making censoring harder. I love that "pdf file" is used in place of pedophile.
roncesvalles 1y ago
Late GenZ and GenA censorship is to substitute the word entirely -- porn is "corn", dead is "unalive", ass becomes "ahh", sex worker is "accountant". Asterisking is old-fashioned.
- smcin 1y ago
  Punctuation, numbers-for-letters (L337) and strategic misspellings are also your friend.
- tbrownaw 1y ago
  > sex worker is "accountant" The others are understandable enough, but what's up with this one?
  - dragonwriter 1y ago
    Its substituting a job you can't talk about without risking repercussions on some platforms with one you can. I don't think its a lot deeper than that, and that the substitution is essentially arbitrary (though I do think it was chosen because it has an extreme opposite social valence, with accountant being among the jobs with the most laced-up, boring, vanilla perception available.)
- dragonwriter 1y ago
  Those are, as I undersand, mostly TikTok-isms (designed around actual and perceived TikTok censorship) more than generational patterns that have escaped (but somewhat attenuated) to other contexts ("unalive" is particularly common in other social media, the rest not so much.)

userbinator 1y ago

A rather famous cryptographer has a last name of Pornin. I wonder how often his name trips filters.