An internal style memo from New York Times editors tells reporters not to use words like “genocide” or “Palestine” when covering Israel’s war on Gaza.
    • Justice@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
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      3 months ago

      I really hate this moronic censorship regime for the sake of advertising. It doesn’t even work either, it just makes everyone use made up words or phrases to avoid censorship. If I learned this as like a 13 year old in RuneScape, that I could type fvck, or whatever the fuck and get around that censorship, it kind of boggles the mind that advertisers are still employing this idea of targeting specifically words. Obviously some specific words (slurs mostly I guess) have specific spelling, usage and meaning derived from that usage so avoiding censorship to use them by default sort of waters it down. But if you want to speak about genocide and keep, I dunno, saying “I-word is doing a G-word to the P-word people!” to maximize the ads by avoiding censorship… I mean what are we even doing here…? [obviously not blaming creators for doing what they kinda gotta do. It’s on Google and the advertisers to stop the silliness]