rina's space

february 28, 2025 @ 02:52 am | est. reading time: 4 - 5 mins | word count 724

birds born in a cage think flying is a sin

we need to talk about this absolute nonsense where the corporate puppeteers are pulling our strings and acting like they're doing us a favor by censoring everything that doesn't fit their narrative. the internet is fucking overly-moderated, everything is "bad", "offensive", "off limits" nowadays. for no real reason. and shut the fuck up, before anyone of you even think of uttering "you just wanna say slurs". i fucking don't. the thing is, you're barely even allowed to have an opinion online anymore. all the freedom that once was there withered away. i'm glad i've had a glance at the time internet was still good, growing up. many of you, younger folks won't have a chance to experience it, and it's quite sad.

picture this: you're a cute little birdie, hatched in a sparkly corporate cage with "community guidelines" engraved in times new roman on it. you've never seen the sky, but the cage has wifi, but also a hologram listing those stupid guidlines. so, when another birdie mentions flying, you clutch your pearls and gasp, "that's a sin!". so this metaphoric birdie? girl, that's you. that's literally you if you're out here stanning platforms that ban users for breathing sideways while letting actual trolls run wild as long as they're monetizable. moderation has never been about banning "bad people", it's sadly the opposite. weirdos roam free, because every time they cause a drama, a high reach post, those rich corpos are making money. so they rarely ever get banned. meanwhile the most mundane, ordinary and normal person may get banned, because god forbid they have had an opinion! "but moderation is important". sure, emily. because nothing says "safe space" more than getting yeeted into the shadow realm for an unpopular opinion, while verified accounts drop slurs like it's nothing.

the funniest part? these cage-born birds swear the real issue is tioxicity, not the fact that their entire feed is algorithmically engineered to sell them shit they do not need, or fill it with as much provocative stuff to trigger an emotion in you, so they get engagement. i love social media, but the ways things have been handled in the past few years made me kinda grow distant from them. i used to spend entire days on them, but those were the happier times.

and you know what's even worse? those people who can't jack off their "high-morals" horse and bootlick those corporations. i'm not saying moderation is mad or unnecessary, but as soon as someone has an original thought that's not perfectly "politically correct" or what not, they get shunned out off online spaces. unless someone is genuine bigot or outright racist, why the fuck do you care? oh they said something offensive to you? b l o c k lmao. seriously, what's up with these keyboard warriors defending the draconian moderation like it's some kind of heroic act? you guys do realize that you basically cheer for censorship, and eventually it may be you that gets silenced. i don't say moderation isn't necessary, but when it borders with violation of free speech, that's when we have an issue. "but they're privately own business international law doesn't fully apply to them". you know how that sounds like? "leave multibillion corporation alone!!!!". "but there are dangerous opinions". the only thing that's truly dangerous is a sanitized, corporate-controlled space where only "acceptable" opinions get airtime. and besides do you really think they care about some random jackass being insensitive? naaah girl, they're just scared of losing that sweet, sweet ad revenue.

i'm, again, not saying we should have zero moderation, but if your idea of utopia is a sanitized, ad-friendly circle jack where the dissent gets the banhammer… babe, that's not a community. that's a digital hoa, and karen's in charge. do you really want that?

let's stop pretending censorship is a personality trait. the internet was made for chaos, creativity, schizoposting, and cat videos... not corporate-approved snoozefests where everyone's too scared to sneeze. you're not a bad person for controversial opinion, hell, you're probably not a bad person even if you're lowkey a dick. i feel like the internet kind of grew more toxic because of all those rules in place. and this post isn't a mere rant, it's an invitation for you to make your own website, too. censorship is kind of cringe.

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