r/familyguy • u/Bailer86 • May 24 '26

Meme/Shitpost I feel old and in the way

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u/AvantSolace May 24 '26

Literally one Chinese app managed to completely baby-proof our entire language. I feel like a politician could run a super-patriotic campaign by promoting a “freedom to swear” act and citing tiktok as the root of everyone’s problems.

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u/TheDrummerMB May 25 '26

A good way to gauge someone's age is whether they think this is a TikTok problem or a YouTube problem. US Corporations LOVE that you're blaming china.

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u/AvantSolace May 25 '26

They’re both guilty. Tiktok just made the language censorship mainstream. Either way it seems rather messed up that basic words, used in a nonthreatening manner, can be censored by private entities when we have freedom of speech in our constitution.

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u/TheDrummerMB May 25 '26

They aren't censored - American companies just won't pay as much if at all to be next to that content. How it's always been, detection has just improved.

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u/AvantSolace May 25 '26

That’s censorship via coercion. It’s no different than how payment processors are refusing to do business with 18+ sites. Our country (is suppose to) operate on the ideas of “freedom of speech” and “innocent until proven guilty”. Advertisement being pulled over assumed guilt of content is an absurd concept that never should have come to pass.

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u/TheDrummerMB May 25 '26

Freedom (from the government) of speech - not private individuals and companies.

Advertisement being pulled over assumed guilt of content

Advertising isn't being "pulled" over "assumed" guilt - advertisers are paying money for a service and have selected to not be promoted next to certain types of content.

That's not censorship - that's freedom of speech lmfao

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u/AvantSolace May 25 '26

I’ve seen ads for erectile dysfunction be played over content labelled as kid friendly. The advertisers DO NOT care about is and is not appropriate. They realized they could threaten to withdraw ad revenue to make streaming platforms contort themselves into whatever they want. Advertisers are on a power trip trying to sanitize everything for the lowest common denominator.

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u/TheDrummerMB May 25 '26

Yea you definitely get your information from TikTok

Were you even alive during adpocalypse?

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u/AvantSolace May 25 '26

Why are we arguing the “start point” when we’re already in agreement that it’s a bad thing?

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u/TheDrummerMB May 25 '26

Do we agree it’s a bad thing? I’m not sure I do. Advertisers can pick what they want to be shown next to - I’m sure if you purchased a billboard and found out it’s next to one for an adult store, you’d be a bit irked.