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    For real, this algorithm is making people talk in a funny way to discuss anything, I cringe whenever someone has to say “unalive” or the video goes to the bottom of the feed.

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        it’s not newspeak, it might be euphemisms but the meaning of what is being said is alive and well, the major hallmark of newspeak is to limit the ability to convey ideas via conversation

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          the major hallmark of newspeak is to limit the ability to convey ideas via conversation

          Slowly constricting the number of words that can be publicly spoken does work us toward that end. Folks who think they’re cleverly sidestepping the latest hurdle are only getting corralled deeper into the pen.

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          To be precise, newspeak does function by a direct reduction of vocabulary. Instead, newspeak works by expanding the number of meanings a single word can have, so that every sentence can be interpreted as supportive of the party, and the ‘grammatically correct’ meaning of the sentence is the supportive interpretation.

          The closest approximation of newspeak in English is the sentence “That didn’t work, did it?” If you respond “Yes,” that can be interpreted as “Yes, you are correct, that didn’t work.” And if you reply “No,” that can’t be interpreted as “No, that didn’t work.”

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            Adapting language to bypass censorship is very much not Newspeak

            It’s quite literally the opposite of Newspeak, an artificial language designed to constrict speech and prevent the spread of complex ideas.

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    I’d love all of my content to be unsuitable for advertisers! Remember when posting on corponet to add something like this to the end of all your posts:

    The products featured below have been known to cause users unexpected diarrhoea

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      I think unsuitable for advertisers is a win-win, you take up more of their storage space, costing them money, and you get to post what the fuck you want!

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        Except when they deem it unsuitable for advertisers, they still run ads on the video, they just don’t pay the creator so Google gets 100% of the ad money

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    No monetization from YouTube. Those with direct sponsorships and/or patreon subscribers or other donators probably make more off those other means of generating income than what Google AdSense pays out. Especially when they constantly change the rules of what can get you demonetized.

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    The internet is a corporate ces pit, we need to block and ignore adds and make marketing unviable, then we can reclaim our once free inherent !

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    I hate YouTube and everything about influencer culture. Peertube is our best hope against it

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      Always has been.

      Remember to buy merch from your favourite monetized socialist because that’ll sure change things!

      All ideology is a scam. Maybe we should think for ourselves?

  • 𝕯𝖎𝖕𝖘𝖍𝖎𝖙@lemmy.world
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    Youtube took down a video of a cop abusing a child. they said it was child endangerment. They’re not wrong but also this is a legal issue, that was a man of the law. This should be shared far and wide.