• CashewNut 🏴󠁢󠁥󠁧󠁿@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    It’s not just Facebook. It’s fucking everywhere. I mentioned in a post comment that fag-got* is a food in the UK and it got auto censored. I had a post deleted for being “offensive” because I asked if the UK is the US of Europe. It was light hearted. Silly.

    But no, every fucker is determined to be offended by everything. It’s making commenting anything other than dry fact absolutely impossible. Sarcasm, banter, and even certain US-English words are outright banned even on non US sites and instances. Unalive, s*x, etc.

    The internet has become fucking brain dead. Everything’s covered in padding so children don’t get a boo boo from naughty words. I’ve seen commentators reprimanded for replying to a kid with a swear word! “They’re a minor, watch the language”. Utterly fucking pathetic.

    Where are the fucking adults? Or why are the adults so fucking precious? It wasn’t like this in 2010. People actually had skin.

    Which is ironic considering I’m gay and British so not only is fagot not offensive but “puff” is worse yet I don’t demand people censor the fucking word! Do British instances censor spastic and Paki as much as the internet as a whole censors equivalent US English words?! American brain rot.

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      11 months ago

      I joined Lemmy.ml since they were the creators. Thought it would be good to stick near the source. Bad choice—it’s made up of angry communists who attack you when you ask questions. Example: someone says they won’t vote for Biden and you ask what alternative they propose and then the personal attacks begin. It’s weird. I’m going to migrate elsewhere.

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          11 months ago

          Also:

          • Anything that mentions LGBTQ people
          • Anything that insults the US or its flag
          • Any religion that isn’t Christianity

          (Not an exhaustive list)

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          11 months ago

          The post in question is blatant racism. Is it funny? Sure. But replace “white” with “black” and add a giant shnoz and people will be screaming up and down about racism.

          At the end of the day, this was just run through some shitty and ineffective AI detection algorithm because Meta can’t be bothered to invest the money required for appropriate moderation of several billion users/day. I mean I come across scam accounts every day pretending to be my friends and report them and Facebook writes me back to tell me they’ll do nothing. Same for a wide variety of spam/scam/pornographic content.

      • CashewNut 🏴󠁢󠁥󠁧󠁿@lemmy.world
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        11 months ago

        Yeah, I’m aware. Which is annoying as I’m a socialist liberal. I just want to be able to speak my mind without it being censored to hell and back by the cultural sensitives of a country an ocean away.

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      11 months ago

      Is “puff” like a play on “fag”?? Being British and all.

      (And do you feel differently when someone asks you if they can bum a fag?? Always wanted to know)

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      11 months ago

      Woah

      Just realized cocoa puffs is a slur against gay black folks. HOW IS THIS A CEREAL IN 2023?

      /s