#corporate censorship

[eeveenicks]

"The idea of being punished by an invisible force for saying a bad word is literally something I was terrified of in Catholic school and it’s creepy that corporate sponsors are living in kids’ heads the way God and Satan lived in ours."

This legitimately took the air out of me when I read it. Absolutely horrifying parallel, and you're completely right.

Picture it: Scranton, Pennsylvania

The year: 2033

A young boy closes out of his Zoom classes for the day, and his mind burns with a terrible secret, a sin he has committed. His grandmother has recently passed away, and he made the mistake of informing his class using the word he had only ever heard come from the mouth of adults: “died”.

Awkward silence and discomfort were palpable from his classmates even over zoom, and for once that discomfort didn’t seem to be coming from the plague of radiation enhanced locusts outside of their windows forcing them to stay home.

“Do you mean she is… unalive?” His friend asks him in a private chat bubble, and he realizes what he has done.

Later that day, burning with guilt and unable to focus on providing content for the school assigned neurolink headset he wears to upload his homework to directly from his mind, he realizes something must be done about this. He has done wrong, and something deep inside of him tells him that he has sinned in the eyes of his corporate sponsors.

He doesn’t have any corporate sponsors or even know what a corporate sponsorship is because he is seven, but it is something he feels within his bones and deep within his soul, the invisible force he knows will punish him for saying a bad word.

With a heavy heart and shaking hands he does the only thing he can think to do. He goes to X and finds the corporate page he thinks will be his best bet for receiving absolution.

He tags @ the company and begins to type “Forgive me Raid Shadow Legends, for I have sinned…”

#anon ask #corporate censorship #unalive #corporate sponsors #I was not expecting to write this much

[celestial-blight]

I wanted to compliment my partner's butt in Shakespearean using Google's AI text message rewriting tool, and it wouldn't let me.

Unironically, this bullshit is the exact fucking reason why I hate capitalism. This is a private message that would have only ever existed between me and my partner, but even like this we can't escape corporate sanitization. Fuck this goddamn country, fuck this worthless economy, let me compliment my partner's butt in Shakespearean.

#text post #ai #gemini #google #corporate censorship #generative ai #shakespeare

[marzipanandminutiae]

“you don’t like the proliferation of terms like Unalive outside of TikTok because you realize that you’re aging out of youth culture and it makes you uncomfortable!”

no I don’t like it because there’s something INCREDIBLY dystopian about being forced to soften terms for basic parts of the human experience like death and sex (and even more so terms for oppressed minorities- call me a “le-dollar sign-bian” and I will bite you) purely because advertisers and corporations demand it

#I didn’t even know the Hip Teen Slang when I WAS a hip teen are you kidding? #I don't give a damn about that #I give many damns about corporate censorship-based language becoming the norms #and yes euphemism has always existed but. this feels Different from it evolving organically #language #slang #censorship

[mywitchcultblr]

If you are an American artist/fan, change your pixiv account region! Because there's new censorship

Number 5. If your drawing has no 'educational/scientific/artistic value' it won't be allowed to exist. These new censorship are absolute nonsense pushed by credit card company and conservative politicians. Fucking bonkers

It's the same thing when Tumblr banned NSFW and they promised that 'artistic nudity' will still be 'allowed'. I hope every purist on the internet realized that when they whine over anime fan art they are repeating what conservative billionaires and politician are pushing:

The death of art...

#pixiv #art #fan art #censorship #capitalism #this is corporate puritanism #I'm not joking #first it was patreon then gumroad noa this #puritanism #politics #twitter #news #Also the poor and queer can't even express themselves or jack off anymore because rich people and politician said nooooo #anime #uk #usa #japan

[n1cklybear]

As if things haven't been bad enough lately, PayPal is censoring left wing news outlets.

#politics #freedom of the press #corporate censorship

[oldshowbiz]

The Heritage Foundation vs. Judy Blume

#censorship #american #heritage foundation #think tank #corporations #paul weyrich

[thoughtportal]

Ohio train derailment and corporate media

#tiktok #train derailment #toxic chemicals #toxic waste #toxic #new york times #ohio #chinese spy balloon #spy balloon #propaganda #censorship #us censorship #corporate media #Manufacturing Consent #Social media #media #cable news #local news #science news #news #Noam Chomsky #advertising #capitalist class #capitalism is a scam #newspapers #railroad workers #rail companies #railroad regulation #railroads #railroad

[cormancatacombs]

IDK how people are so surprised that Paul Simms is throwing out flimsy excuses for why Nandermo can’t be canon.

Like do you guys not remember who owns FX and Hulu?

#even if the wwdits cast and crew want it canon they probably can’t press the issue with Business Daddy without risking cancellation #we saw how Disney fucked over Owl House and Strange World #MAYBE if we’re lucky the Mouse will relent in the final season #wwdits #nandermo #paul simms #disney #fuck censorship #fuck corporations #fuck homophobia #owl house #strange world #guillermo de la cruz #nandor the relentless #nandor x guillermo #guillermo x nandor #wwdits nandor #what we do in the shadows #queer #lgbt

[craycraybluejay]

The political climate right now as a queer writer with a deep appreciation for the arts and especially literature is fucking abysmal. Writer friends are yelled at to delete queerness or violence from their stories. And you still think this is just about someone getting in a hissy fit over Blorbo 1 being too young for Blorbo 2 and someone writing about them fuckin.

#anti anti #anti censorship #queer writers #writerblr #writers on tumblr #yell at politicians and jfc yell at corporations that work with publishing #us politics #this is like someone saying closet antisemites uncloseting themselves in wake of the atrocities going on in gaza isnt an issue bc its online #well online is a place too #AND this reflects on real life. random jewish diaspora who have no personal stake in whats happening in israel and palestine #have been getting harassed and threatened and worse for the sin of being a jew #just because its 'online' does not mean its not also a problem irl-- even bigger irl #maybe you're the one that's so chronically online if you think things that happen online stay there forever #creators have been doxxed online. it's not inconsequential. its not funny. im not laughing. #hate the high horse stance of 'its not on my front yard so therefore doesnt exist and youre stupid for caring' #conservatives think like this too #well *I* dont personally know any queer people so its alright if they get murdered as long as my gas prices might go down #fuck you i got mine kind of ideology #well fuck you too

[commiepinkofag]

profits over people — the corporate hellscape of internet censorship, safety, privacy, data mining…

#capitalism #internet censorship #internet #data mining #profit over people #apple #microsoft #kosa #chrome #google #privacy #privacy protection #internet privacy #monopoly #european union #eu #corporate hellscape #kids online safety act #2024

[battlesluts]

Oooooh angwy!!!!

#everyone on here is so angry right now godddd #and like for good reasons but like god some folks are just not at all mindful of the direction their anger is going #oh how i pray for the era of 'post written as if telling off a bigot' to end...honey the bigots should not be following you... #anyway don't trust corporations and their censorship should be expected #and resisted but also. expected. #I dunno a tgirl that didn't get wiped off twitter five times back in the day ya know. same shit different day.

[prototypelq]

I...installed some extensions for Firefox, mainly needed a couple of vpns to keep in reserve...

Found some extremely useful extensions along the way like only loading audio from youtube, video downloads, ads blockers etc

Found a censorship blocker.

I now have unlimited access to ao3.

I AM LOOKING FOR THESE EXTENSIONS FOR OPERA IF THERE ARE NONE LIKE THAT IM SWITCHING TO FIREFOX

#I AM SORRY WHAT #YOU CAN JUST BYPASS GOVERMENTAL CENSORSHIP WITH THIS FREE EXTENSION FOR YOUR OPEN SOURCE FREE BROWSER? #THIS is how you get someone to switch browsers #i love my opera gx i admit they sold it to me with the gamer stuff #but all the firefox propaganda is getting to me and i am all hands on deck for free internet and middle-fingeding data stealing corporation #firefox

[marzipanandminutiae]

I will never get tired of hearing people complain about the euphemisms or censored versions of words used on tiktok. I have friends that are on tiktok and there have been times we’ve been texting and they’ve used “unalive” or “seggs” in PRIVATE CONVERSATIONS and not accidentally, they honest to god thought the censored version of the word was what I’d prefer to read. The day I hear “unalive” in an in person conversation is the day I fake my death and move to the woods

yeah it's

deeply disturbing

and contrary to what Certain People got out of my post, I do not think this is the fault of the TikTok users in question! they're just doing their best to talk about their lives and form community in an incredibly toxic environment!

but...that doesn't make it any less off-putting or frightening when it starts becoming the norm outside of that environment

corporate-driven censorship should not become part of common courtesy

#ask #anon #and you know what? yes I do think it's different when it's driven by the needs of a corporation #rather than sparing someone's feelings (common euphemisms for death) #or to avoid attracting a supernatural being's attention historically ('the Fair Folk' or 'bear') #it's not WORSE than government or social prejudice-based self-censorship but #it's similarly disturbing in a different way #language #internet #tiktok #censorship

[mywitchcultblr]

Corporate Puritanism

Back in the olden days people were puritan because they feared God's invincible hand, but now we are entering a new age of puritanism where sexual content are driven to death because of the invincible hand of capitalism and corporate tyranny, you can't even say 'sex' on youtube. The most ironic thing is, there are people, even those who claimed to be progressive and hates capitalism who cheer for the death of sexual content and even supporting corporate puritanism because sex is 'icky and bad'.

Yes I'm looking at you the people who say NSFW should never be allowed on tumblr again

#corporation #capitalism #politics #tumblr #puritanism #religion #leftist #irony #anti capitalism #censorship

[antidisneyinc]

star wars drinking game! take a drink every time a character says "hope" when they mean "antifascism"

#even more sick of the corporate censorship after andor #let the h word die let them say what they mean #star wars

[oldshowbiz]

Charles Koch of Koch Industries claims to be a Libertarian interested in Free Speech. He points to FIRE, the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, a group he funds along with other far-right billionaire organizations, as proof.

However, he has recently funded, lobbied for, and sponsored a flurry of anti-protest legislation which criminalizes protest (and even support of protest) if it targets his massive corporation and its respective oil projects.

As is often the case with the most aggressive "freedom" and "liberty" advocates, it is free speech for me but not for thee.

#corporations #america #historical context #censorship #think tank