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Okay, how do we feel about media censorship? I'm working on a project using it, and I think it's okay to some extent. Perhaps certain media is restricted to prevent dangerous information and content that violates rules, but I'm sure the problem extends beyond that in terms of social media freedom of expression and raising awareness about sensitive themes or circumstances.
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little rant on media censoring!
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Reply by XxpiercedprincessxX
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It's good and bad
Good, cuz we don't need to see certain things fully (not context wise, I'm speaking of Image ceonsoring e.g.)
Bad because uh...important news, information and other things can be held from the people.
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Reply by deadinderry
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In general, whenever the word "Censorship" is used I have kneejerk negative reaction to it--how often have we seen good-faith censorship (not showing gore, etc) expanded to cover things that certain subsets of the populace just don't want people to see (lgbt+, etc)? I do think that extremely explicit things maybe shouldn't be on the evening news, but there needs to be absolutely clear language on what "explicit" truly means. Is it nudity? Is it two men/two women kissing? Is it someone getting blown up?
Unfortunately, a lot of media, social or otherwise, is growing more and more puritanical and conservative due to advertising possibilities and shifts in popular thought. Which is... worrying, to say the least.
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Reply by Neooooo
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I'm all for it when it comes to hate speech, harmful rhetoric, and misinformation, especially if it's on a big platform, but all of this unfortunately depends on whoever is deciding what counts as hateful, even if it's not actually true.
Reply by arc0
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Censorship is inherently bad. It is an abstraction of reality. I live in reality, and I dont need fucking glowies or corpos controlling what kind of reality I see. With that being said, I dont think NSFL or NSFW content should be viewed by children, or IMO even for entertainment by adults.
Language should not be censored period. No word, phrase, or line, that any single person can ever utter should be censored. I am adult. Hate speech is a psyop.
Reply by ⋆｡ﾟ☁︎⋆｡ LG ﾟ☾ ⋆｡ﾟ ˘ᗜ˘
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As always, it is over-used, and by now, I have to c*nsor eve*y sec*nd word, unless I want to get banned from a site. Or it just doesn’t show my post. Or I get a threat in my inbox that I’m posting something “inappropriate “ sure honey, let’s get back to the socialist era, where people were shot after being imprisoned, for writing a poem about freedom.
sure honey, let’s get back to the socialist era, where people were shot after being imprisoned, for writing a poem about freedom.