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How many social media sites are you a part of that is run by a person in the Epstein files?
Most of them apparently
Are we a part of the social media site? I’d argue, given all the effects those damned sites have on its users, its governments, and the economy… the damned sites are actually a part of us. Our behavior changes after the introduction of those things, because we are now (1) whatever we were before + (2) whatever those sites have done to our species. That makes us (3) the result.
We are certainly affected by the social norms and memes which are generated by the larger site’s algorithms even on Lemmy.
Even here you see arguments that are Reddit styled, you see self censorship from TikTok (unalived, f*ck, etc) and you see the purest outrage-bait from X. A huge portion of the content that we see on Lemmy is content that was surfaced by the primary social media site’s algorithms.
We do get to dodge the hyper targeted nature of the content so, assuming you’re Lemmy-only (if not, delete those apps for your own sanity) you won’t be given content that is hypertuned to your specific psychological traits so a lot of things will fail to make as big of an impact on you which can give you enough mental space to maintain perspective.
I’ve seen people on news and other places saying that they can’t send texts with the word “Epstein,” there was also censorship around Israel and ICE videos as well
“Always has been”
I’m pretty sure the keywords have changed, but they should’ve mentioned in the article that Tiktok has never been uncensored.
The amount of times I heard "le dollar bean, “sewer slidal,” or “unalived” was part of what made me uninstall the app back in 2020. Got a little tired of willingly participating in the plot of 1984.
Yeah ofc, and it will continue.
The things being censored is just different now.
You can speak ill of Xi “Winnie the Pooh” Jinping, but not about Mango Mussolini now.
You mean it‘s still censored?
No no no, now it’s censored differently !
Was there censorship on TikTok before the US takeover?
Laughing so hard my ass is falling on the ground
Yes.
