to me,

isnt about controlling the narrative

narrative is emergent

isnt an issue of working for free, community is unpaid labor cos labor of love

is so much simpler on just censorship alone,

the fact that this is insane

that words have to be struck out to not get caught up in robots or mod censors

which is constantly reifying danger and penalty where there should be none

no one should be in fear of losing their livelihood for sharing words someone else wrote about being afraid of being sexually assaulted or raped

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there is a psychological cost

and a social cost

and a community cost

to having to carry in your head a list of bad words that might get you demonetized or demoted or shadowbanned

there is moral injury that comes with inventing euphemisms and vague roundabouts and nicknames for a word like: suicide to make sure your friends are even able to see what you spent time to say and share

it is humiliating and demoralizing to be asked to do this to yourself and your own words all in hopes of evading censors

having to live on a platform with an invisible hand on your throat that can choke you out and delete you at any time with no recourse