This was hilarious but man, is it loathsome that the Internet now censors the words porn and piss simply because China needs to reach every young American with their bullshit malware.

[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 48 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Wait. What does China have to do with this? Is saying porn and piss illegal in china?

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 99 points 3 months ago (2 children)

TikTok does this censoring

[–] Miaou@jlai.lu 26 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Instagram too, hardly a Chinese problem

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 17 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I had never seen that prior to TikTok doing it

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 5 points 3 months ago

TikTok may have been the first to do it, but now the genie is out of the bottle

[–] randint@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 13 points 3 months ago (2 children)

imho Chinese platforms censor their words too much. you might not have seen it, but the users self censor words like death, suicide, sex, and stuff like that.

[–] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 months ago

Annoyingly self reported chinease users I used to talk to would go dark after mention a certain square, tanks, and massacre. Since the push for misinformation instead of censorship its been less common but it also just seems like there are less people from China in my internet social circles now too. :/

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

And somehow the youth loves it anyway.

What happened to rebellion, kids? And you even have shit to be mad about now.

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

S***

[–] el_bhm@lemm.ee 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

China has to do with malware. However you want to define it. NSA has plugs everywhere, so does China.

Censoring has to do with reach and realities of parasite media. Targeting young demo keeps platforms first growing then afloat(see kik still being around shoveling "teenager demo" while being a csm hell hole).