r/MadeMeSmile • u/SatoruGojo232 • Jul 02 '26

Wholesome Moments Great to see heroes being honoured

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u/kearkan Jul 02 '26

Yeah me too.

I don't understand this censorship. It's like you're denying that it's real. Rape, sex, shooter, suicide, these things happen and should be talked about so they can be seen and judged.

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u/Civil-Cod-6984 Jul 02 '26

It’s mostly because the algorithm on most social media websites will not promote any post with those words in them because the topics are not advertiser friendly. Then people will naturally start doing it in their posts because they see others doing it.

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u/burf Jul 02 '26

Hilarious that capitalism is ruining basic communication now.

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u/wholetyouinhere Jul 02 '26

It makes it difficult to criticize the capital class. If you wanted to make a video describing systemic abuse of some kind, and upload it to YouTube, you'd have to censor your language in order to make any income, which means tiptoeing around what the perpetrators are actually doing.

Meanwhile, if a person decides to take a camera to some impoverished part of a city, and make a 20-minute slapdash "documentary" implying and insinuating all sorts of things that aren't actually happening, and blaming it on "liberal" policies without saying so out loud, and get tens of millions of views from people who believe it all because they're primed to, that is completely acceptable within YouTube guidelines.

This imbalance isn't coincidental.

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u/Manpag Jul 05 '26

It's almost like the response to censorship and demonitisation should be a total boycott of the platform until they either revert or collapse, but we've collectively let way too much slide for that to be viable now.