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