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It’s a very minor point amongst the far greater injustices of the situation, but the Cornell case has also just reminded me how much all of society seems to have just accepted the fact that big tech won’t allow people to use the word “rape”. (Or at least people *believe* so — nobody knows!)

It’s not even coming from manipulative masterminds, it’s coming from middle managers that will push through a stupid word filter feature to boost their Trust and Safety OKRs

I think this is one of the things people don't realize. There is this idea of this carefully orchestrated conspiracy of manipulation via social media, and while some of that is true (mostly through state actors, not corps), most of the stuff is PMs making dumb decisions and not understanding them

It's an emergent system that has about the same outcome as a conspiracy. You get a big class of people with shared beliefs and incentives and they'll act in ways that benefit their class even if they don't coordinate or even understand what they're doing