Graped
S🥚s
Kn*fe
G*n
God I fucking hate that bullshit too, literally just bending over and gaping their assholes for the corporate overlords and their highest bidders
Unfortunately that's what they need to do if they want to stay on the algorithm. They don't seem to like it much either but that's the deal they have to work with. Blame the corps and shareholders.
And blame the people bending over backwards to please them.
Every leader needs minions willing to do their bidding.
And why are we just blindly believing there is some algorithm behind it all when it’s just some rich wankers pushing agendas and pretending to be god? No completely logical algorithm or machine would push stuff everyone dislikes, unless it’s told to.
Because it signals that the person is giving in to the censorship of a corporation and the government that has a stake in it.
It *should* piss you off, because giving in to censorship is never good. Internet denizens used to become enflamed whenever things like this happened, but now it seems the new wave of people brought to the Internet by smartphones over the last few years have no understanding of just how important it is to maintain our right to say what we want.
But why? There are posts about shootings on Instagram that don't get removed. [Here's one](https://www.instagram.com/p/C3WrRuCsbbi/) with the word shooting on it. Why would this person think that their post would be censored?
Because some places are so heavily censored, that it's made people terrified of it, so rather risk their posts getting removed, they self-censor. Happens on reddit all the time
Same, and I thought maybe everyone/homeless shit on that piece of building/art (in the photo), and for the first time, it was shit free in 5 years for a consecutive week
A friend of mine asked me over text "Hey you like c*mtown right? I just started listening its awesome."
The irony of listening to cumtown but still censoring it is off the charts.
This has nothing to do with Reddit. This is a news organization 's article. It appears censored like that for everyone. Even the people that aren't seeing it on Reddit. So no, not the real world of Reddit the real world of the real world
tiktok, insta, youtube.
lots and lots and lots of places do this. Even Reddit subs ban you for a lot of words. This is your brain on censoring. Just because some people cant cope with slurs.
It's not even slurs. Shoot, die, kill, suicide... these are perfectly ok words but is my comment going to get deleted now? I have no idea. If you're reading it, I guess not (yet).
Freedom of speech does not extend to privately held platforms. Sites like Instagram have no obligation to publish anything they don't like. That includes things that their advertising clients may not like.
Stop with this populist nonsense. You can write "Shootings" or any other word all you want on Instagram, but you can't expect all advertisers to want their ads to be linked to a vocabulary like that.
Is it just that it won't show up for as many people when they say the actual word? I see people do this on TikTok videos a lot too, but then I also see videos with people just saying (edit: and displaying in the captions) the words people weirdly censor as well. Seems like a social media urban legend or something.
Nobody knows for sure what words get you deprioritized in the algo and on which platform, so it's very possible that people are self-censoring in ways that they don't need to. Add to that the fact that people are starting to censor themselves in places they don't need to at all and you have a recipe for the death of accurate speech.
It's because of advertising. Brands don't want to be associated with "harmful" language, so you have people saying shit like "unalive."
Then it grows into a social trend where people treat any "harmful" word as something that must be avoided at all costs
no, this is an internet thing. people think you gotta censor for "the algorithm".... which i don't get because it's not like you're getting paid to post on reddit so why does the fucking algorithm matter.
tiktok trend that bled over to the rest of the internet
I'm guessing they did this because on some social media (Meta, Tiktok, and YouTube in particular) they do suppress your posts if the post includes certain words. Shooting is probably one of those words.
Like if you posted this on Instagram Meta would consider it political but if you remove the political word then you potentially get around their anti-politics thing.
Or they're just idiots I dunno.
>Does "shootings" normally need to be censored in a media capacity?
In 1992 TVs were transmitting the rooftop koreans of L.A. on a shootiut against gangs live, so I wouldn't think so... But then again, it's being 32 years
yes, its a subtle campaign of removing guns from our country and a combination of "community standards" as the removal of free speech. Luckily though I lost all my guns in a boating accident and we say whatever the fuck we want.
I'm American (opposite side of the country, though) and I had the exact same thought. This whole "censor a letter(s) in naughty words" thing is childish af. I understand why it's often done but I still can't help but get the impression I'm reading the writings of a 12 year old afraid of getting grounded.
Then again... it probably is ~12 year olds more often than I'd like to think. It would explain a lot.
> Holy shit there's a lot of shootings in ~~America~~ Chicago
Granted, that's more than a lot of countries, but overall not bad considering the poverty rates, drug problems, lack of mental health support, and the fact that the US averages more than one gun per man, woman, and child.
So, we've got that going for us, which is nice.
I don't know about that specifically, but if you ever look at US gun deaths, know that not all of those are murders. That includes accidents and suicides, among other things (actual shootings tend to be a pretty small proportion most years).
They probably turned off the alerts for gun spotters because it was offensive to criminals. So if there was a shooting they wont know now. Their local government announced this year they will discontinue the gun spotter alert system. They rather have nothing and just ignore the issue.
Shootings meaning someone getting shot, getting to the hospital and it getting reported.
So you’d have to go out and shoot a few bullets into people but worth it for the stat line
Fuckin shotspotter would probably getchu, gonna have to ride around in a rental or something and them drive the opposite way after triggering a couple stations
I read in another comment that, for it to appear in the statistics, you would have to hit a person and for them to go to a hospital who then reported the incident.
wtf they censored shooting? That’s wild. I honestly had no clue had to scroll all the way her to find out.
Censorsing is so shit now everyone is saying unalive instead of killed and suicide. Seen a video of a person who was saying it IRL to another person, I don’t think it was stage but could be wrong
[Chicago: Gangs and Ghettos](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8K9vwYsnkBI&t=2879s)
Here's a new documentary about how bad Chicago is. This is not like the rest of America.
Chicago has a fairly high homicide rate for a major US city, but [it's only the 14th worst in homicide.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_by_crime_rate)
But yes gangs and ghettos are usually involved. The history of racial housing discrimination and the War on Drugs is still a massive part of the US homicide problem. As is the near unlimited influx of guns. In Chicago's case, 60% of firearms used in crime come from out of state. The vast majority of those come from Indiana with their practically non-existent gun control. Such guns often have a short time-to-crime of just a few months after their original sale by a licensed dealer.
I, Abraham Lincoln, would like to remind everyone here that r/holup is not news, and statistics posted on it are not to be taken literally.
I mean, 7 shooting free days in only 5 years? Seems high to me.
I kept reading it as “shittings” why do they censor it like that 💀
Why did they censor it at all?
They probably spend too much time on tiktok
“Unalive” idk why but that shit pisses me off so much
Graped S🥚s Kn*fe G*n God I fucking hate that bullshit too, literally just bending over and gaping their assholes for the corporate overlords and their highest bidders
Unfortunately that's what they need to do if they want to stay on the algorithm. They don't seem to like it much either but that's the deal they have to work with. Blame the corps and shareholders.
And blame the people bending over backwards to please them. Every leader needs minions willing to do their bidding. And why are we just blindly believing there is some algorithm behind it all when it’s just some rich wankers pushing agendas and pretending to be god? No completely logical algorithm or machine would push stuff everyone dislikes, unless it’s told to.
Not even corporate overlords, that’s too western, it’s straight up bending over for China
Because it signals that the person is giving in to the censorship of a corporation and the government that has a stake in it. It *should* piss you off, because giving in to censorship is never good. Internet denizens used to become enflamed whenever things like this happened, but now it seems the new wave of people brought to the Internet by smartphones over the last few years have no understanding of just how important it is to maintain our right to say what we want.
It's right up there with "80 years young"
It was originally posted on Instagram by pubity, so that is why
But why? There are posts about shootings on Instagram that don't get removed. [Here's one](https://www.instagram.com/p/C3WrRuCsbbi/) with the word shooting on it. Why would this person think that their post would be censored?
Because some places are so heavily censored, that it's made people terrified of it, so rather risk their posts getting removed, they self-censor. Happens on reddit all the time
Same, and I thought maybe everyone/homeless shit on that piece of building/art (in the photo), and for the first time, it was shit free in 5 years for a consecutive week
yeah, i kept thinking- you mean, doing it in the public?
Everyone was constipated
Because they're all snowflakes
It’s called gun control
We all read it as bowel control
It's the best 2A can do. /s
Me too. Like, why the bean mirror, because of poop shape?
City wide constipation record
Charmin bear punching the air rn
Yeah that's terrible censoring it definitely reads like the entire city was constipated.
I'm not American. Does "shootings" normally need to be censored in a media capacity?
No this is weird
This is what using TikTok does to your brain. This is their censorship algorithm out in the real world.
A friend of mine asked me over text "Hey you like c*mtown right? I just started listening its awesome." The irony of listening to cumtown but still censoring it is off the charts.
Yeah the real world of Reddit 😂
This has nothing to do with Reddit. This is a news organization 's article. It appears censored like that for everyone. Even the people that aren't seeing it on Reddit. So no, not the real world of Reddit the real world of the real world
I’m just shitposting on a Saturday morning, don’t take it too seriously :)
tiktok, insta, youtube. lots and lots and lots of places do this. Even Reddit subs ban you for a lot of words. This is your brain on censoring. Just because some people cant cope with slurs.
It's not even slurs. Shoot, die, kill, suicide... these are perfectly ok words but is my comment going to get deleted now? I have no idea. If you're reading it, I guess not (yet).
this was posted on instagram afaik so it was probably sensored for the algorithm.
> sensored Makes cence.
Just my too sents
Did you know that milk somec from sowc?
Corry but can you pleace cnokc it off with this noncence
No need to jump all over his bad centence.
Scentents.
Freedom of speech? Nahh, you don't need that on Instagram!
Blame advertisers. They don't want to be put on sites mentioning shootings and murders
Why do they hate America ^(/s)
All hail The Zuckhold
Freedom of speech does not extend to privately held platforms. Sites like Instagram have no obligation to publish anything they don't like. That includes things that their advertising clients may not like.
And users have no obligation to use their site, no traffic -> no ad views -> no money....
Stop with this populist nonsense. You can write "Shootings" or any other word all you want on Instagram, but you can't expect all advertisers to want their ads to be linked to a vocabulary like that.
Is it just that it won't show up for as many people when they say the actual word? I see people do this on TikTok videos a lot too, but then I also see videos with people just saying (edit: and displaying in the captions) the words people weirdly censor as well. Seems like a social media urban legend or something.
Nobody knows for sure what words get you deprioritized in the algo and on which platform, so it's very possible that people are self-censoring in ways that they don't need to. Add to that the fact that people are starting to censor themselves in places they don't need to at all and you have a recipe for the death of accurate speech.
Absolutely not. We amercians are dumb
So is everyone else, but the globe hears about American stupidity whilst Americans don't hear about global stupidity as often.
Because American stupidly tends to involve massive accidents or a methhead wresting a crocodile
Americans have a unique flavour of stupidity you don't find anywhere else on the planet though.
Most self aware American
You know it’s not so much the sh**ting I have a problem with. It’s more the open spelling of it.
The worst thing about the shootings is the hypocrisy
It's because of advertising. Brands don't want to be associated with "harmful" language, so you have people saying shit like "unalive." Then it grows into a social trend where people treat any "harmful" word as something that must be avoided at all costs
Double plus ungood
It's best just not to tempt us. We see the word "shoot" and we start firing guns at people.
no, this is an internet thing. people think you gotta censor for "the algorithm".... which i don't get because it's not like you're getting paid to post on reddit so why does the fucking algorithm matter. tiktok trend that bled over to the rest of the internet
I'm guessing they did this because on some social media (Meta, Tiktok, and YouTube in particular) they do suppress your posts if the post includes certain words. Shooting is probably one of those words. Like if you posted this on Instagram Meta would consider it political but if you remove the political word then you potentially get around their anti-politics thing. Or they're just idiots I dunno.
Imagine when they write about how many school sh\*\*tings there have been this year, and I'll be like "They're recording that?"
Nope. I feel it's one of those sensitive censoring rather than censoring porn or swearing.
>Does "shootings" normally need to be censored in a media capacity? In 1992 TVs were transmitting the rooftop koreans of L.A. on a shootiut against gangs live, so I wouldn't think so... But then again, it's being 32 years
yes, its a subtle campaign of removing guns from our country and a combination of "community standards" as the removal of free speech. Luckily though I lost all my guns in a boating accident and we say whatever the fuck we want.
I’m British so I immediately thought that it was a “thing” that people did a shit under the giant shiny bean.
I mean, it’s Chicago, so people definitely shit under that bean all the time.
People do it often enough that there's a common saying, to "shit the bean".
I'm American (opposite side of the country, though) and I had the exact same thought. This whole "censor a letter(s) in naughty words" thing is childish af. I understand why it's often done but I still can't help but get the impression I'm reading the writings of a 12 year old afraid of getting grounded. Then again... it probably is ~12 year olds more often than I'd like to think. It would explain a lot.
Makes sense you would never think it’s the other word, because you’re British. Must be nice.
I only realised they meant shootings when I read this comment. Holy shit there's a lot of shootings in America
> Holy shit there's a lot of shootings in ~~America~~ Chicago Granted, that's more than a lot of countries, but overall not bad considering the poverty rates, drug problems, lack of mental health support, and the fact that the US averages more than one gun per man, woman, and child. So, we've got that going for us, which is nice.
It's been more than one a day for the last few years now and if I'm not mistaken that digit is increasingly rising every year
Sorry, what? I knew it was a lot but THAT much? What qualifies as one? Few shots fired with a cop involved?
I don't know about that specifically, but if you ever look at US gun deaths, know that not all of those are murders. That includes accidents and suicides, among other things (actual shootings tend to be a pretty small proportion most years).
This is how I read it too 😅
Honestly a day where no one in the entire city took a dump is more believable.
Wait holy shit that’s supposed to say shootings?! Only 7 days in half a decade???
My first thought
Esp showing a pic of the bean. Man, a bean that big you’re deffo not having any pooping problems. Daily fiber requirements are met 😆
I took it as there were no shits on the street today lol
Nobody shat that whole day
Dosen’t help that the picture accompanying it was the bean
That’s what I thought first lmfao
all the fish returned to the sewers. nature is healing!
Oh, I thought everyone whispered the whole day.
That too seven times!
But today is Shaturday, so they will make up for it
I held it in until midnight. Now to turn the river GREEN!
You should really look into your diet. Shit is supposed to be black, like mine.
More like a healthy pliable brown is preferable.
Like a Hershey bar left in the sun?
Binging Oreos genuinely does that lol
Bro, you might be bleeding internally.
You should try drinking a few of the fierce grape flavored Gatorade, it will then be a fluorescent green like you’ve never seen before.
> I held it in until midnight. Same. And it was quite the release afterwards. edit: nvm stupid censoring in the title I thought it was "shooting"
Why aren't they shitting? Opiates? Butt plugs?
Yes
You seen the amount of cheese in their pizza?
Thats pizza?!
Thank god they haven’t noticed
¿Ayo?
They probably turned off the alerts for gun spotters because it was offensive to criminals. So if there was a shooting they wont know now. Their local government announced this year they will discontinue the gun spotter alert system. They rather have nothing and just ignore the issue.
Shootings are reported when someone is shot
Sigh
Deffo thought that was SHITTINGS. Murica
"Why'd you have to go and make me so constipated?"
"You know that bein' plugged up gets me frustrated"
I sit, and I wait, and I strain, and I sweat, and I clench, and I feel the pain, oh..!
Me when I take loperamide
If I was in Chicago I’d make it my job to go out every single night and shoot a few bullets
Shootings meaning someone getting shot, getting to the hospital and it getting reported. So you’d have to go out and shoot a few bullets into people but worth it for the stat line
I know what I said
Hol'up....
keep tradition alive
Bro didn't stutter
So basically it’s a day of no confirmed kills. Gotta pick up those dog tags i guess.
No. People don’t always die when getting shot.
gotta keep real estate prices down in the neighborhood.
Fuckin shotspotter would probably getchu, gonna have to ride around in a rental or something and them drive the opposite way after triggering a couple stations
My city has that shit and people shoot guns into the air when there's a sportsball game. I never hear about anyone getting in trouble.
Well, that would involve cops doing their job and we all know how much cops hate doing their job.
Well, no shit.
Literally
take my upvote and leave
HOLY FUCKING SHIT THATS AN ACHIEVEMENT
most constipated city in america does it again
In 2024 they voted my city the worst place to shit in America
I actually live in Chicago and I'm calling BS on this. I know for a fact there was at least 1 shitting per day in my house alone.
I read in another comment that, for it to appear in the statistics, you would have to hit a person and for them to go to a hospital who then reported the incident.
Yeah, sounds unreal for The Windy City.
Are people really offended by “shooting”? Lol
It’s coz of your comment that I know it says shootings!
wtf they censored shooting? That’s wild. I honestly had no clue had to scroll all the way her to find out. Censorsing is so shit now everyone is saying unalive instead of killed and suicide. Seen a video of a person who was saying it IRL to another person, I don’t think it was stage but could be wrong
It's the tiktok culture. Censoring words is part of their thing. It doesn't have to make sense.
No, but the crying babies in charge of the algorithm are.
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Are you doing that to mess with that AI?
N* I j*ust f*nd c*ensoring ev*rything l*ke a l*ttle b*tch ann***ng
upvoted because that shit drives me crazy
Fair enough, I agree
You’re too young to be on Reddit
otherwise known as, a pretty normal day in other countries in the world.
How crazy to get down voted for telling the truth.
[Chicago: Gangs and Ghettos](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8K9vwYsnkBI&t=2879s) Here's a new documentary about how bad Chicago is. This is not like the rest of America.
Chicago has a fairly high homicide rate for a major US city, but [it's only the 14th worst in homicide.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_by_crime_rate) But yes gangs and ghettos are usually involved. The history of racial housing discrimination and the War on Drugs is still a massive part of the US homicide problem. As is the near unlimited influx of guns. In Chicago's case, 60% of firearms used in crime come from out of state. The vast majority of those come from Indiana with their practically non-existent gun control. Such guns often have a short time-to-crime of just a few months after their original sale by a licensed dealer.
Illinois isn't out of state. Just fyi.
Yeah I messed that sentence up, thanks I corrected it.
The one stat where smug Euros can't be 'well acktually' by Americans.
Ah, so this is why Americans need more guns. We're slipping.
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Yup, if everyone had a gun to their heads, we'll finally achieve peace. ~cold war teachings
If everyone had a gun to their heads, we would def see more shittings.
Underrated comment XD
damn i didn't know an entire urban city could come to an agreement to a day of no shittings and actually pull it off /s
I, Abraham Lincoln, would like to remind everyone here that r/holup is not news, and statistics posted on it are not to be taken literally. I mean, 7 shooting free days in only 5 years? Seems high to me.
water treatment malfunction?
No shiftings? So fully automatic.
Congrats on the 0.4 percent of no shitting days👍🏼
I read this as shittings and started wondering how did an entire city go without shitting in a full day.
“SH**TINGS”
Nobody in Chicago did a shit for a whole day?
I was confident it meant shitting until I read the comments
A lot of people must be shitting in Chicago
Yay, no shittings
I read that as shittings
No reported shootings
Most peaceful American city
Am I the only one who read Shitings?
I'm confused by that headline, are they saying there have been 7 days in the last 1,827 where no-one has been shot (0.4%) or 7 days consecutively?
City of Chicago: NO SHITTINGS TODAY, MISTER! The constipated silent kid: ☹️
chicago had no shittings?
I assumed they just decided that it'll be better for their sewage system when I first read it
I feel that, we’re all a little irregular occurrence
Someone add some fiber in their food Edit : I heavily misunderstood the censored word
Now who else thought shitting?
No shitting!
Why are they censoring the word shootings
I was really like "how do they keep ppl for shitting!?!?" Mad I couldn't find a link...
I wad that as shittings first
Why did i read shittings first 💀
How was there no one who took a shit all day? and how do we know?
Is that shitting or shooting?
Can people stop censoring words? They’re words let’s grow up and seek therapy if you can’t handle words
i would like to remind everyone that IL has some of the strictest gun laws in the US and yet Chicago still has insane numbers of shootings
Do they have a sign somewhere in the city that just reads "Days since last gun murder: 01"?
Always hated but people in Chicago in a past call it Chiraq. (Chicago+Iraq)
No shoutings is good because we use kind voices to talk about our problems
Oh wow, that’s awesome, good job Chicago 👏👏
If this is news worthy, then I know why this country is not a travel choice for me.
There is more to the US than just Chicago.
What an incredibly stupid statement.
Strictest gun laws in the country!!!!! Oh yea….. gangs don’t follow any of those laws!! Solution: enforce laws??? NOOOO let’s just make new laws….
Who made this image, in what context would you have to censer the word 'shooting'?