This is what I particularly hate about self censorship
If you are behaving a certain way to please an algorithm or an advertiser, you’re just cosplaying as a bot—particularly on lemmy where all it’s going to accomplish is annoyance
But what if what I want to say sometimes resembles the self censorship anyway, because my anxieties make me want to avoid coming off as too “mean” regardless of what some corpo thinks?
Even just “Are you freaking serious?” This one tells me you want to get across a similar point but don’t swear like a sailor. “F*cking” tells me that your mom’s going to take away your Xbox for a week if she finds out.
I self censor because my intrusive thoughts are especially unkind to people who don’t deserve it. But they’ll pry the word fuck out of my cold, dead fucking hands.
This is what I particularly hate about self censorship
If you are behaving a certain way to please an algorithm or an advertiser, you’re just cosplaying as a bot—particularly on lemmy where all it’s going to accomplish is annoyance
Say whatever the fuck you like, it’s more human
But what if what I want to say sometimes resembles the self censorship anyway, because my anxieties make me want to avoid coming off as too “mean” regardless of what some corpo thinks?
Good.
Another great option if you don’t want to swear.
Dumb autocensorship. Don’t ever do this. Either spell it out or leave the word out altogether. This accomplishes nothing.
Even just “Are you freaking serious?” This one tells me you want to get across a similar point but don’t swear like a sailor. “F*cking” tells me that your mom’s going to take away your Xbox for a week if she finds out.
I self censor because my intrusive thoughts are especially unkind to people who don’t deserve it. But they’ll pry the word fuck out of my cold, dead fucking hands.