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.
  • MonkeyBanana [fae/faer, they/them]English
    53•9 months ago

    Ben Norton from Geopolitical Economy Report says YouTube demonetizes videos if he says the word “genocide” in a recent video he had to refer to it as “the g word” lol

    • @Justice@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      35•9 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]

  • Juice [none/use name]English
    24•9 months ago

    A comrade of mine said, “this is why the intercept is going broke. Everybody already knows this shit.”

    • YEP [he/him]English
      20•9 months ago

      I think its good that a news organization like the intercept actually puts it in print.

      • Juice [none/use name]English
        10•9 months ago

        So do I but I def know where my comrade is coming from. It practically already is in print in 100,000 different ways that nyt is a bourgeois rag. If this is the headline that convinces someone of class antagonisms, awesome. But yeah this isn’t exactly news

    • ThomasMuentzner [he/him, comrade/them]OPEnglish
      25•9 months ago

      its the passiv income class , Everybody is under the Influence of the Passiv income class …

      Passiv incomes lives from aktive income parasiticlly ( the landlords lifes from the Money his tanents produce , without active labouring on his own) From this Passiv income they derive Influence via media and beeing the Doorkeeper to highr Jobs , which they use to underpin their Ideology and punish Dissent.