🏕️ Autumn @lucian How do I report content? Just saw the N word being used as a username. :/

🗜️ Mx Lol. Here comes the thought police. How can any normal 21st century person be okay with illegal words, animals, plants or people?

🌚 Nlggers I agree with this sentiment. I am concerned with the direction western tech platforms are taking with regard to censorship. My anecdotal experience has been that in the early 2000s censorship was more prevalent among companies outside of the US (Daily Motion for example) and with the introduction of American companies offering similar services (YouTube) things became more free. Now the opposite has become true with Google introducing programatic censorship via Perspective API

Tmp So is that the point you're trying to get across with your username?

🌚 Nlggers I think in part my feelings towards the pervasiveness of censorship online did motivate my decision to pick this username. Certainly I would say it is my primary motivation.

Tmp And would you say you're helping the cause now? I'm honestly interested. I definitely see how censorship is a very slippery slope, but I'm also not the type of guy who'd jump at your username just because it's up for grabs. Also, what's your secondary motivation?

🌚 Nlggers I suppose because I'm curious to gauge the way tech workers interact with someone who they may disagree with from a moral or ideological standpoint while I attempt to share information and have discussions in a well intentioned manner. If my username provokes discussion of censorship I'm not sure if that will help my cause. Maybe it will, or maybe it will not. Anyhow I'll try to make quality posts until I'm inevitably removed.

🤔 David Perhaps (in an odd way) I can understand how simply choosing your username is an effective form of protest. I personally find the word offensive, and yet acknowledge the idea you are standing for.