What's wrong with regulating certain words on social media?
Video posting and distribution services such as YouTube and Twitch, and SNS such as Instagram and TikTok all have 'policy prohibiting posting of inappropriate words'. Words that are considered 'inappropriate' vary from those that suggest violence, sexual activity, and criminal activity, but exposing these words to the public can result in punishment. To avoid such a policy, people are trying to 'paraphrase a word with another word'.
'Algospeak' is changing our language in real time --The Washington Post
Users paraphrase a number of words to prevent the content moderation system from automatically detecting posts. For example, in English-speaking countries, 'unalive' is used instead of 'dead', and 'SA' is used instead of 'Sexual Assault'. In addition to paraphrasing words into other words, there are also examples of replacing them with pictograms. For example, sex workers use corn emojis instead of the word 'porn', and when people talk about the Russian-Ukraine issue, Ukraine is represented by sunflower emojis, and there are different patterns.
Such paraphrases are called ' Aesopian language ', which is likened to the Isop story, which incorporates political nature into the parable. In Japanese, this kind of paraphrase is known as a kind of 'jargon' and is widely used not only in SNS.
According to the Washington Post, a foreign newspaper, the pandemic of the new coronavirus infection (COVID-19) has led to the use of many Isop languages that prevent algorithms from detecting language as more people communicate online. It was said that. The Isop language is not only used by harmful communities, but people who want to talk to others about mental health issues talk about the topic of 'suicide', which would otherwise be censored, and sex workers themselves. It is also used when discussing the work of.
These policies are used to remove harmful content from the platform, but they are often rather harmful to people who want to talk about content without harmful intent. LGBTQ creators say they dare to paraphrase the word 'gay' because they can't monetize on YouTube, and the start-ups that offer
Evan Greer of Fight for the Future, a non-profit organization that works on digital rights, said, 'It's ridiculous to try to erase a particular word on the platform. People are good at avoiding such a system. And most of all, unrelated people are suffering from collateral damage. ' We are calling on multiple experts to increase transparency and strive to create a better platform for corporate moderation.
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