The Critical Compass Podcast - November 23, 2024


Cancellation , Self Censorship, & Social Media ｜ A Critical Compass Clip

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Length

2 minutes

Words per minute

143.16

Word count

365

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Summary

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In this episode, we discuss the growing problem of censorship and self-censorship on social media platforms, and how it affects creators, creators, and creators' ability to earn a living online. We discuss the role of governments and social media, and the role that governments play in policing the social media landscape, as well as the role social media plays in promoting censorship.

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00:00:00.000 these extreme ideas are slowly being normalized in a way that they they shouldn't that even the
00:00:07.960 idea of being fully canceled or having social media completely wiped or deleted that used to
00:00:14.280 be quite rare and reserved for the most extreme cases part of it is like obviously you have
00:00:22.060 top-down approaches from whatever laws are implemented by a government in a region
00:00:27.720 but then you've got this other layer it adds a little bit of complexity of a platform like
00:00:34.400 facebook or instagram twitter or even youtube where they are they've got their own code of conduct
00:00:42.040 which is partially informed by some of the major countries that they they operate out of
00:00:46.800 and they are kind of self-policing and self-censoring based on those policies as well and then you have
00:00:55.960 self-censorship like the bottom layer is self-censorship of you maybe you think of it as a
00:01:01.740 there's a social layer to it of like well i don't want to offend people so they're self-censoring that
00:01:06.760 way i don't want to get canceled so they're self-censoring that way and even let's say somebody's
00:01:12.500 a creator on a platform they're going to self-censor because they're going to align with
00:01:16.280 the monetary incentive so even if they're not worried about offending anybody
00:01:21.980 they're they're still going to be a tweak and maybe they're not saying certain words or they're
00:01:28.640 changing the way that they approach things just to stay on a platform
00:01:32.280 yeah and if and if legislation like this has the effect that we just talked about
00:01:37.360 um really what what'll happen is that'll just kind of further shrink
00:01:41.840 an already very small overton window and when you combine that with what you say you've got a
00:01:48.440 you know perhaps a a noble uh intent of not wanting to cause offense and then a more selfish
00:01:57.400 intent of not wanting to be canceled with a third aspect of you know if you're a creator if you're
00:02:03.360 somebody with any sort of public presence at all you know on any social media with not wanting to be
00:02:09.100 have your potential income restricted so that's it's a perfect storm in all in all fronts
00:02:15.860 you