People clearly realize that these algorithms are suppressing dissidents and freedom of speech. Why do they continue to subject themselves to these hacky workarounds and self-censorship?
because there are no viable alternatives for large outreach.
only influencers and advertisers need the large outreach; a huge majority of people just passively use it.
passive users don’t care about suppression and censorship
as well as having no good reason for being on those platforms.
US libs: “PEOPLE IN COMMUNIST CHINA ARE FORCED TO USE SLANG WHEN TALKING ABOUT CHINESE ATROCITIES TO GET PAST CENSORSHIP!!”
Also US libs: “Unalive” “Music Festival” Bleeping out Palestine “This is fine and way better than communist China”
Also interesting how Tiktok only started doing this after they were forcibly sold off from the Chinese parent company and was forced to conform to “Western values” eh?
Unalive started being widely used 2020-2021.
Idiots will do anything just so they dont have to learn how Email works.
do you really expect to be CC’d along with hundreds or thousands of others about ICE raids, never mind about literally any event involving injustice? And how about footage of said event? Where’s that going to be stored? As an attachment? Google Drive link?
When censorship of one of its worst kind is unfolding in front of you, where genocide is referred to as “water slide”, you instead blame the people for self-censoring? Get real.
