But they clearly didn't intend the word "suicide" because it wouldn't even fit in that sentence grammatically. If they are referring to the death of Elaine Herzberg, they may have intended it to mean "murdered" or "killed", but certainly not "suicide[d]". How could an SDC suicide a human being???
Well I'm not a TikTok user, but it wouldn't surprise me if such a filter was equally uncomfortable with the words "murdered" or "killed" in videos. They probably really don't want death threats going viral.
Audiovisual media seems increasingly sensitive to "naughty words". I've seen a lot of YouTubers who feel that it is necessary to censor words like "m*rder" or "r*pe" or "f*ck" -- exactly this way in their text descriptions, and they literally bleep the words if mentioned on video.
I'm confused, because I thought that the scanners which detect TOS violations were becoming smarter, and it doesn't seem like an isolated swear word--or mention of sexual assault using plain English--would trigger an actual TOS violation, but it seems that these creators are wary of attracting attention by using the words uncensored.
