tiktok
I automatically have zero respect for anyone using that chinese spyware trash.
Made in china, under complete control of ccp as every big company in china is. It is very unfortunate that younger generation is essentially being raised by tiktok and its algorithm.
Facebook is bad, no doubts about that, it’s also unavoidable as the only social media for most people, and it’s also not fun for most people. Tiktok on the other hand is interesting, it’s captivating, the algorithm tailors it to you, microdoses you with dopamine. I’m sure that same algorithm can be, if desired, used to push pro-china/pro-russia/anti-west narratives to varying degrees of subtlety, tailor-made to each user, to further destabilize certain countries, united states included.
Social media is dangerous, social media controlled by a potential enemy is dangerous on a whole another level.
Oh no, telling people that the US isn’t the greatest country in the world, the horror!
This right here is the answer.
Yes, we know that our government has done shitty, crazy things to try to control people and they probably aren’t above that today.
They do not have it in their best interest to weaken their own country though. A potentially hostile foreign government does.
I mean, everyone uses it so I hope not. We’ll see I guess.
ITT: people getting crotchety over language evolving
This kind of newspeak censorship is absolutely evil. We should absolutely go against any people or entities pushing it forward.
I’m not going to say exactly what I’d want to do to them because it would likely violate the Geneva convention, though honestly I feel like it shouldn’t if we should also be allowed to punch, shoot, or otherwise violently attack Nazis, why not these evil people trying to suppress us and Push newspeak right now? Ultimately they’re being civil right now but once they have their way they’ll be beating and arresting us (Just like the polite Nazis would).
Yeah why shouldn’t we violently attack and murder anyone who does anything we don’t like? We’re good people and they’re bad people therefore anything we do is right and good!
“We shouldn’t hurt Nazis, Nazis are real people too who deserve love and respect like all other people.”
Yeah I used to find “Unalive” quirky and charming, but now it’s… Getting a little too Demolition Man in here…
It’s scary how we seem to be getting closer and closer to 1984.
It was also written in 1946 or 47 but published in 1948. See the pattern? They swapped the 4 and 8 and published a dystopian future of the far off year 1984, lol.
Sorry, I just love that little fact.
End result is the same for us though. It just ends up being someone different enforcing it.
Newspeak is intended to make more complex thoughts impossible. This isn’t newspeak; they’re still talking about the topics, they’re just using dumb filter workarounds.
Though I do feel it’d be obnoxious to actually talk like this when not needed
Though I do feel it’d be obnoxious to actually talk like this when not needed
on the one hand, yes. on the other hand, my generation piloted the spoken use of “lol”, “lmao”, and their myriad variations in pronunciation. this strikes me as merely upholding that proud tradition.
I suppose eventually I’ll come around to accepting it, if it persists. But these are not the same; the intent behind them is different. “LOL” is an acronym, not a censorship workaround. Saying it out loud is purely ironic. Maybe the zoomers saying Tiktokisms out loud is also ironic (I’ve personally never heard it directly), but the reason it exists in the first place is stupid
Preventing people from saying “lesbian” sounds homophobic to me.
CPC regularly disappear gay and lesbian people. Back in 1996 they just publicly executed them.