cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/23396300

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nickyflowers posts:

it would be cool if websites let you be an adult on them. the advertisers and payment processors need everything to be Family Friendly though and their definitions of family and friendly are absolutely fucked. but since they’re in charge of the Internet now, no one is allowed to be an adult. tiktokers say things like “unalive” and “seggs” because they know death and sex are too adult for online. online is for idiot babies only now because they’re easier to market to

nickyflowers replies:
oh im sorry you’re a trans adult? super ban. you are super banned for life. you have upset Visa’s feelings. Mastercard is throwing up in the corner. how could you do this to Google Ads?

  • Vespair@lemm.ee
    252·
    20 hours ago

    I’ve been saying for years that the advertiser-friendly neo-puritanicalism that was infecting the left was a trojan horse for conservatism, and then here we are.

      • Vespair@lemm.ee
        141·
        16 hours ago

        Insistence on decorum, general anti-sex sentiments, curtailing of language to adhere to advertiser-friendly standards, to name a few.

        • JuxtaposedJaguar@lemmy.ml
          2·
          4 hours ago

          I think all of that is true when it comes to mainstream public events, but bath houses are still a thing and queer people are still having a lot of sex. Playing to your audience is just strategic.

          • Vespair@lemm.ee
            3·
            4 hours ago

            I don’t really understand what you’re trying to say, if I’m being honest.

            I will say though that having sex and being pro-sex are two extremely different things, and the existence of one does not in any way imply the existence of the other.

      • shani66@ani.social
        113·
        18 hours ago

        C’mon, you don’t have to look very hard to find puritanical, anti-sex ‘leftists’

    • easily3667@lemmus.orgEnglish
      83·
      20 hours ago

      Yes advertisers like chase and Walmart and visa are truly the most left you can be.

      • Vespair@lemm.ee
        21·
        16 hours ago

        I’m not calling those who craft and insist on this kind of language left, I am calling the people who accept and use it supposedly part of the left (in vague terms).

        You are making my point. My point is that conservativism is charlatans and we becomes their stooges when we play according to their terms, including on the field of language.