Social media forcing people to see self-censorship as normal has to be in the top 5 of the most harmful things they are doing.
It’s yet another dystopian online trend that China pioneered over a decade before the ‘free’ internet adopted it because money.
Instagram was already forcing people to self-censor before TikTok became a thing
Instagram or smart phones didn’t exist when China started it. This isn’t about TikTok starting anything.
It’s amazing how many people will self-censor and add disclaimers when speaking irl these days.
cws/disclaimers are good
censorship (including self-censlrship) is bad.Content warnings seem to be useless or add stress
I definitely appreciate them. Its not useless.
The excellent podcast Search Engine has an episode on this topic with a guest expert in the field who absolutely agrees.
