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It's a word. I'm getting broken down by the amount of censorship on the internet, particularly Youtube. Their guidelines only state to withhold any uncensored cursing or content deemed only suitable for mature audiences for the first fifteen seconds, to avoid being tagged as mature and the video viewcount and profit largely reduced. A very small price to pay for freedom of human expression and life. But channels take this much further than the relatively mild corporation's rules, such as:
These actively block and suppress conversing about real issues, leading to more harm, more assault, and more silent victims. Every time the word suicide is censored signifies to me that another person has committed suicide because they weren't heard. This has been proven to be correlation.
Censorship of human life, experience and expression not only insults my personal ideals of life and freedom, but actually causes more harm, and I cannot forgive that.
What makes swear words so offensive? It’s not their meaning or even their sound. Is language itself a red herring here?
Being Silenced: The Impact of Negative Social Reactions on the Disclosure of Rape
Censorship of words like ‘rape’ and ‘sexual assault’ on social media hurts victims more than it stops bad actors
Channels aren't doing that because they want to. YouTube has a lot of rules, some of which are written down. They do it because YouTube has flagged them in the past for demonetization on the issue, and they can't afford to do that too many times. It can also impact your ability to do livestreams.
It's on top of a pile of issues that's making YouTube content creation non-viable for everyone.
It's a bigger issue of so few platforms for people to use and reach an audience.
But it all comes down to corporations are causing people to unnecessarily censor themselves. It's a weird thing where corporations have a power they shouldn't to control what people are saying.
I somewhat understand content creators who make money. But I don't understand the people who comment and don't make money off of it censoring themselves so a company can make more ad revenue.
This is why I love Any Austin. Whenever he says "fuck", he puts a bleep somewhere around that time, sometimes a couple of seconds off.
some day we're gonna run out of letters in the alphabet for "*-word", just say whatever, it's the meaning that counts