It’s yet another dystopian online trend that China pioneered over a decade before the ‘free’ internet adopted it because money.
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jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
Social media forcing people to see self-censorship as normal has to be in the top 5 of the most harmful things they are doing.
CosmoNova@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
Instagram was already forcing people to self-censor before TikTok became a thing
CosmoNova@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Instagram or smart phones didn’t exist when China started it. This isn’t about TikTok starting anything.
ogmios@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
It’s amazing how many people will self-censor and add disclaimers when speaking irl these days.
vox@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
cws/disclaimers are good
censorship (including self-*) is bad.
woop_woop@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Content warnings seem to be useless or add stress
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Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
The excellent podcast Search Engine has an episode on this topic with a guest expert in the field who absolutely agrees.
jagged_circle@feddit.nl 3 weeks ago
I definitely appreciate them. Its not useless.