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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olivers282mo 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.

the_uma2mo ago

Isn't it wild how this robot gatekeeping is just creeping into everything now?

ryan_nelson1mo ago

Totally feel you on this. It's like the robots are grading our character now, not our ideas. Had a similar thing happen at my local community board meeting. We had to submit all public comments through an AI filter first. Total nightmare. You spend more time figuring out how to trick the machine than actually saying what you mean. Makes you wonder who's really running things these days. Solidarity on this one, it's exhausting.