• JonsJava@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    This post has been reported. The reason given:

    Engagement bait

    I mean, if you feel people shouldn’t be posting engaging content…

    Leaving it up.

    EDIT: people keep complaining. There’s no rule against this, and the meme stands on its own without the line though the word.

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      It’s pretty obvious the report is due to the badly censored word. That’s specifically done as engagement bait. And saying “that’s how I found it” isn’t an acceptable reason, anyone could very easily edit it out in a few seconds (Not that anyone did, just showing that there is absolutely no reason to post it with the engagement bait).

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        11 hours ago

        Just ignore it. If it works then we’re too stupid for it to matter anyway.

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      Thank you for taking the time to respond. I guess I could have been more clear: this trend of half-assedly crossing out normal words is a clear manipulation tactic to increase the comment count of a post and boost engagement because people inevitably call out the bullshit in the comments section. It dilutes the discussion and becomes very tedious when it happens so often.

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      14 hours ago

      If this came from another, corporate run platform, they OCR images and “normal” words will get your content deplatformed so

      Sorry the online world is more of a sinister dystopia than you may have considered

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      11 hours ago

      You failed, they only “censored” half of a word. And saying that’s censoring is like putting one nail into a piece of scrap wood and calling it fine quality furniture.

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      21 hours ago

      I assume getting around TikTok and Meta algorithms that would automatically filter this image from public view.

      Gotta make it safe and corpo friendly for the advertisers! 🙄

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        It probably just gets tagged as “spicy meme someone tried to censor”, and still gets tracked and targeted the same way as the rest of the content. They know fully well what kind of post it is, a line is not going to break the algorithm

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          It has nothing to do with what children see, the reasoning is that advertisers don’t want their products to be associated with violence by showing their ad next to a post about violence.

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            Also platforms don’t want to be seen as places of free expression by the current administration. State department approved messaging only!

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        Maybe to get past software that would screen out political violence posts? To be transparent, I didn’t make the meme but the hypocrisy is worth pointing out.

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          11 hours ago

          You should have removed it. It’s being done as engagement bait a LOT, same with misspelling words. Just the fact that it can be that should be enough to either not share anything that has it or to take a few seconds to edit it out.

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      16 hours ago

      Engagement bait to increase comments, this getting an algorithm boost. Report and move on.

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    20 hours ago

    Not just politicians and definitely not only Americans. No one spouting the ‘violence is not acceptable’ actually means it. They don’t mean to abolish the police, military, prisons, taxes, mandatory school…

    It’s just doublespeak, the violence I like is not violence so if someone responds to it with more violence I can condemn them, they are the violent ones not me.

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      18 hours ago

      Post is more related to political violence. The double standards of extreme condemnation when violence used against politicians while they do promote violence towards foreign populations (i.e. palestinians, jews or venezuelans) and local minorities (i.e. racial or radical groups).

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    21 hours ago

    Exactly why I can’t take any of these weenies seriously when they spout this nonsense on whatever Pod Save Whatever episode they’re on this week.

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    Fun fact: Writing on munitions can be considered a violation of the Geneva Convention. Under Article 23, it is forbidden to employ weapons with any substance intended to aggravate a wound. So unless that is a completely non-toxic marker, it could fall under that.

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      14 hours ago

      There is some distance between “intended” and “could conceivably”. Good luck convincing the ICC that a nanoliter of ink is being used as a chemical weapon.

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        I mean chances of it happening are almost infinitesimal, but it is still something to consider. I was a munitions troop in the US military for 6 years and this was drilled into us. If there was anything on a bomb or missile it had to be sanded and repainted.

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          12 hours ago

          shrug That sounds more like your officers just didn’t want you writing on munitions. But it is something to consider.

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            I always thought the same thing until I had to unload a plane one time because they found some corrosion on a bomb. A dumb bomb that was going on it’s way to be dropped. Of course that was back in the Bush era when the US government was a little more picky about the war crimes they committed.

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    You don’t understand. These motors aren’t hitting anybody I know or care about, therefore I can feel no guilt about it