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Trump, 79, explodes in F-word meltdown as his ceasefire unravels (www.thedailybeast.com)
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Donald Trump ripped into Iran and Israel for violating a ceasefire deal within hours of his triumphant announcement.

“You basically have two countries that have been fighting so long and so hard that they don’t know what the f--- they’re doing! Do you understand that?” he told reporters Tuesday morning on his way to the NATO summit in The Hague.

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[–] 35 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

It's a word. I'm getting broken down by the amount of censorship on the internet, particularly Youtube. Their guidelines only state to withhold any uncensored cursing or content deemed only suitable for mature audiences for the first fifteen seconds, to avoid being tagged as mature and the video viewcount and profit largely reduced. A very small price to pay for freedom of human expression and life. But channels take this much further than the relatively mild corporation's rules, such as:

  • Censoring or obscuring all expletives deemed by Christianity to be foul
  • Censoring or obscuring all words describing a sensitive subject (e.g. rape, sex, sexual, abuse, murder, suicide, kill)
  • Censoring any moment in which a being is subject to any form of impact, whether accidental, assault or police abuse

These actively block and suppress conversing about real issues, leading to more harm, more assault, and more silent victims. Every time the word suicide is censored signifies to me that another person has committed suicide because they weren't heard. This has been proven to be correlation.

Censorship of human life, experience and expression not only insults my personal ideals of life and freedom, but actually causes more harm, and I cannot forgive that.

What makes swear words so offensive? It’s not their meaning or even their sound. Is language itself a red herring here?

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Channels aren't doing that because they want to. YouTube has a lot of rules, some of which are written down. They do it because YouTube has flagged them in the past for demonetization on the issue, and they can't afford to do that too many times. It can also impact your ability to do livestreams.

    It's on top of a pile of issues that's making YouTube content creation non-viable for everyone.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    It's a bigger issue of so few platforms for people to use and reach an audience.

    But it all comes down to corporations are causing people to unnecessarily censor themselves. It's a weird thing where corporations have a power they shouldn't to control what people are saying.

    I somewhat understand content creators who make money. But I don't understand the people who comment and don't make money off of it censoring themselves so a company can make more ad revenue.

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