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Just realized my old campus newspaper column would get me suspended now
Wrote a piece in 2010 arguing against a mandatory diversity seminar, got a few angry letters. Tried to submit a similar take to the paper's online portal last month and it was auto-rejected for 'harmful content' before any editor even saw it. Anyone else notice the filters are doing the censoring now?
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olivers2812d ago
My college paper at State U had a similar auto-filter system last year. I found you have to rewrite the whole thing without using certain trigger words, which is its own kind of censorship. My workaround was to submit a draft with placeholder phrases like "campus required training" and then argue the real point in the editor meeting. It's exhausting that the debate now starts with getting past a robot.
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