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Mexican TikTokers have code words to report on narco-violence without getting banned. (restofworld.org)
submitted 4 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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[–] [email protected] 106 points 4 weeks ago (8 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 4 weeks ago (4 children)

It's amazing how many people will self-censor and add disclaimers when speaking irl these days.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (3 children)

cws/disclaimers are good
censorship (including self-censlrship) is bad.

[–] woop_woop 10 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Content warnings seem to be useless or add stress

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/21677026231186625

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

The excellent podcast Search Engine has an episode on this topic with a guest expert in the field who absolutely agrees.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 weeks ago

I definitely appreciate them. Its not useless.

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