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Re:The surprisingly subtle ways Microsoft Word has changed h... by mschuster91 on Sunday November 05, 2023 @07:59AM (#38150755)
> It's just comical how adults on Youtube talking about adult topics are pressured into censoring even mild profanity

That's mostly due to TikTok which is even worse than Youtube in its opacity and complete unaccountability to anyone.

IMHO this app is controlled by the Chinese government to a degree that it is intentional that kids can't talk about stuff like sexuality (which has to be censor-named to "seggsual") or suicide ("unaliving") using proper words - sort of like 1984.

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Re:The surprisingly subtle ways Microsoft Word has changed h... by marcosdumay on Sunday November 05, 2023 @10:54AM (#38152201)
Well, IMO, one of the former communist dictatorships doing things that resemble 1984 is... completely unsurprising.

What is different now is that we are getting contact with it. While in the past the Orwellian features were kept inside borders both for propaganda effect and because nobody outside of them would willingly adopt the practice.

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