Hurting someones feelings or being offended is the worst thing an american could ever go through. It absolutely tanks ad revenue.

When I was a kid in Yahoo chat rooms... I saw things man.

These kids don't know.

Well the 4chan kids know but these normal kids don't know.

It started out as a fun way to make light of Disney refusing to allow the word "Kill" to show up in the cartoon adaptation of Ultimate Spider-Man, now when I hear it in a youtube true crime video I want to game end myself.

I wouldn't worry about that one too much. Death has a ton of euphemisms to soften the concept; "passing away", "transitioning", "going home", etc and so on and whatnot.

I'm waiting for that word to become so popular it also gets censored, it'd be hilarious

Have never been on Tiktok. Have no regrets.

How was it infecting the left?

Until the community supported platform becomes an advertiser supported one. Remember they said this same exact thing when moving from Facebook to Reddit.

Running is not going to save the online community. People have been running for the last 30 years, and it led us to some of the darkest times we've seen in 100 years. Instead we need to fight back and strategically retreat. Change the incentive structure - make advertisers absolutely miserable, and those who leech from advertisers should be similarly flogged.

Demonitising youtubers has made the Internet say

Unalive

A baby have been formed

Frick

And other shit it's stupid and the self censoring of fuck is annoying. I mean I would love for the Americans to invent new swear words. In German the censoring almost always fail since we have way to many words for insulting or swearing. Some are always free to use.

But the Americans just censor fuck instead of getting creative. Boring as a speech of Trump.

It's because the app reportedly limits and is more selective with videos that contain certain words. Death, rape, suicide, homicide, genocide, murder, etc. it can also pull your video. They don't do it because they are sparing anyone's feelings, their saying it that way to avoid their videos being taken down it hidden.

This was posted on tumblr where trans people being suspended by staff with no good reason is a fairly regular occurrence

"Sorry guys, the ad people don't like it." was just an excuse, the real goal was censorship of the web.

If Corporations are allowed to set the rules as to what gets talked about and what can't be mentioned, it's easier to flood the net with advertisements for their products.

No it's really payment processors.

There have been multiple successful ad-free websites in the past. But they still need revenue to function. Revenue their users happily pay.

But then Visa or PayPal or whoever is handling the transactions starts to pay attention and then all the sudden there's new rules in place or else they hike fees or just stop processing payments altogether.

And on the Internet, there is no true alternative methods of payment (hint: any viable methods are quickly suppressed by those same payment processors).

So the only way any website gets big is left to the whims of advertisers or payment processors (usually both).

I have no idea why we as a people are somehow fine with private companies having a complete stranglehold on all significant online business. Why we've allowed the government to privatize digital transactions, subject to very little rights or protections. It's allowing private corporations to massively suppress free speech, commerce, and social gatherings in the digital sphere.

Honestly our supposed freedoms are more and more limited these days because they only apply to public spaces, but there's been a continual erosion of 'public'. Where is the modern town square? If the only place you can practice your 'rights' is almost nowhere, do you really have those rights at all?

The government should be mandating that 'digital infrastructure' (ISPs, data centers, payment processors, etc) are neutral and can't be utilized to bully others out of business. That their privileged position also comes with extra responsibilities and restrictions so you don't have the digital equivalent of cutting off water to an abortion clinic because the water utility is pro-life.