cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/23396300

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nickyflowers posts:

it would be cool if websites let you be an adult on them. the advertisers and payment processors need everything to be Family Friendly though and their definitions of family and friendly are absolutely fucked. but since they’re in charge of the Internet now, no one is allowed to be an adult. tiktokers say things like “unalive” and “seggs” because they know death and sex are too adult for online. online is for idiot babies only now because they’re easier to market to

nickyflowers replies:
oh im sorry you’re a trans adult? super ban. you are super banned for life. you have upset Visa’s feelings. Mastercard is throwing up in the corner. how could you do this to Google Ads?

  • Diplomjodler@lemmy.world
    1·
    29 days ago

    The US religious fundamentalists have managed to impose their fucked up values on the world. Calling it “family values” was always a lie.

  • shani66@ani.social
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    29 days ago

    I blame the rise of nu-puritanism on Google and payment processors. It’s a load of bullshit that people can’t even have negative feelings these days.

  • Vespair@lemm.ee
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    29 days ago

    I’ve been saying for years that the advertiser-friendly neo-puritanicalism that was infecting the left was a trojan horse for conservatism, and then here we are.

  • PeteWheeler@lemmy.world
    1·
    29 days ago

    Yup.

    If I can’t say basic words and facts like, this woman was raped, this man died, etc.

    I just don’t use the website in any meaningful way.

  • endeavor@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    1·
    28 days ago

    The companies doing this are americans and americans are pussies who think sitting in sauna naked with your same-sex family members is traumatic but watching endless gore is fun. The mindless religious zealotry, their puritan ancestors and lack of separation between church and real life is to blame.

  • SaltyIceteaMaker@lemmy.ml
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    29 days ago

    funnily enough on tiktok you can say “fuckass” but you cant say someone’s intelligence is akin to that of a toaster or that someone is stupid. i have also seen the n word multiple times

  • PieMePlenty@lemmy.world
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    29 days ago

    Relatively easy fix though. Get away from advertiser supported platforms and use community supported ones.

    • green@feddit.nlEnglish
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      28 days ago

      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.

      • endeavor@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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        28 days ago

        Normalize supporting software and sites through donations rather than ads.

        If your community dies since nobody supports it, it was shit anyway.

  • Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    01·
    29 days ago

    The adult stuff goes deeper.

    There are furries.

    Deeper than that, there are bronies and non-bronie MLP (FIM) enthusiasts.

    And below that, there are furries who like animal genitalia.

    And at this point, a few miles down into the abyss, there are lolis.

    ETA What should be under lolis but isn’t is CECOT. That is, is appears family friendly enough for VISA, also very real and sponsored and used by the US.

    • Vespair@lemm.ee
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      28 days ago

      Jesus fucking christ one of these things is not the same.

      I don’t care if people want to bang fictional anthropomorphized characters. It’s not my thing, but aside from that it has absolutely no bearing on my life and doesn’t present any kind of moral failing. It’s niche, and it’s fetish, and sure it’s a little odd, but it’s harmless.

      Even as a non-furry, furries do not deserve to be compared to pedophiles or lolicons.

      These are not the same things.

      Fantasizing about fucking Tony the Tiger is just in no way comparable to fantasizing about fucking a child without the intellectual or legal capacity for informed enthusiastic consent, and frankly, it’s weird as fuck to try and conflate the two.

      I also echo the other commenter in saying that I have no idea what “CECOT” is supposed to mean.