Fuck, Alphabet did it during COVID. YouTubers had to talk around the pandemic or the Great Algorithm of Everything might demonetize or de-prioritize their videos. Yes, let’s not talk about the most pressing topic affecting the entire planet because it makes a few marketing geniuses sads… brilliant.

I loved how Blade Trinity at least recognized the absurdity (for TV channels that required censorship)…

Original:

• Hannibal King: How about you take a sugar-frosted fuck off the end of my dick?
• Danica Talos: And how about everyone here not saying the word “dick” anymore? It provokes my envy.

Censored:

• Hannibal King: How about you take a sugar-frosted fuck off the end of my Woohoo?
• Danica Talos: And how about everyone here not saying the word “Woohoo” anymore? It provokes my envy.

So, starting today, users who, within a certain timeframe, upvote several pieces of content banned for violating our policies will begin to receive a warning.

I saw users warning other users to be careful (how they upvote) or they might get banned. I don’t know what else screams “censorship” and “hostile environment” quite like encouraging your own users to caution those around them to shut up.

Refreshing to see a comment like this. I was dumbfounded when I opened the Reddit thread this morning and found NONE of this. The Reddit of Old is quite dead. Long live the Reddit of Whatever the Fuck this is; or, better yet, platforms like Lemmy.