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The most annoying thing about younger people is they c*nsor themselves (lemm.ee)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/unpopularopinion

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Censorship is a real problem, but you don't have to embrace it. That's just making the problem worse.

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[–] cAUzapNEAGLb 51 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I agree, I don't like all the self censorship that I think comes about from algorithms like tiktok - I'm not talking about ideas, but instead about literal words replacement censorship like "unalive" "seggs" and that like

I want people to be bold enough to use the real word - at least in irl conversation.

It feels way too much like Orwell's Newspeak

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Exactly! I hate how corporations get to control our language now and people just fall in line with it.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Bootlickers love corpos doing this and they enable it.

Kinda like boomers provided political cover for corpos to fuck us over.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

100%

They voted in every horrible aspect of modern life, and cheered themselves despite their obvious, visible failings.