[Ads-l] s--

[Andy Bach]

Instagram must have a strong banning policy based on text (and images but
that's different) because it is full of folks using elisions like "seggs"
or <one letter><emoji> or just emojis in any vaguely sensitive (generally
s-x related, though) msg, even the captions on images, so their bot or
whatever, must be able to decode those.  We can wait for Nancy F. to have a
full overview of these language cow**rds.

On Thu, Mar 21, 2024 at 2:36 PM Charles C Rice <charles.rice at louisiana.edu>
wrote:

> My son brought this to my attention recently and I've been trying to track
> down the service/platform/environment that is causing it, or what/who
> authors think they are avoiding with these spellings. So far I have seen
> them on Facebook but only in the short videos that are piped in from
> Instagram or YouTube. I have seen a few more on YouTube itself. Instgram
> users--I am not one--insist there is no filter on Insta so it's not coming
> from there (but I rather doubt the assumption). People have sent me
> examples of s---- for shoot and d-- for die. There's a guy on YouTube
> posting as DeleteLawz who uses these spellings to amplify his
> policing-the-police persona. Here's an example:
> https://youtube.com/shorts/UF1eMbKXPi4?si=XSwfNb8ZDsVfj96c
> "cop slams man's h**d into car". The subtitles include f*ck, bl**d, p*gs,
> d*es, and for each of those words the sound track provides only the first
> and last sounds. He visually covers the violent act described in the title.
> This example might be motivated differently from some of the other examples
> of self-censoring, but it provides good examples of the general practice as
> I've observed it.
>
> YahooNews presents a new twist for me because it would likely be a
> platform-wide policy (or if it isn't, that would be very interesting as
> well). As far as I know, YahooNews is an aggregator, so it might pull in
> items that are already self-censored by another publisher.
>
> Clai
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> url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.com
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> "Daniels claimed that she accepted the money to create a paper trail for
> her protection and also claimed that the s-- was consensual....In the
> documentary, Daniels revealed why she did not reject the billionaire
> mogul's request for s-- during their meeting decades ago."
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> JL
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