If you are a thriller author, you must be careful about your book covers. Using a knife in your background means you are supporting violence. But, what if it is a weapon of murder in your book? If you write about murder, you will not post flowers or kittens, don't you?
If you are a romance or erotica author, you must be careful not to post nudity. A man with a naked torso in the background, what does it look like?
I am not joking, we are talking about algorithms nowadays. You will not be aware if are you breaking the rules, and the community will alert you. The author will not be able to advertise the book if someone reports your post might be deleted because it offended someone's feelings.
Do you know what is insulting my feelings? The fact we fought for the freedom of speech and after centuries of burning books and sacrifices, we got back in the Stone Age and in the arms of censorship.
Let me write you one example.
I had proofread of book and this was my sentence. "The fat man sat next to the woman. " And a proofreader said: "Overweight man. The word fat might offend some feelings."
Once I was giving a review for the book. I used the word "shit" because it was in the sentence of that book, I wrote "it was a shitty day" like it was written in the book. My review did not get approval, even though I posted it copy-pasted from the book.
Using censorship might get undesirable effects:
The lack of humor. We must be careful what to write.
The lack of imagination. The content might get limited, dull, and uncreative.
The lack of originality. If we must follow the rules, the books will be written in a pattern.
Do you want to read books where algorithms rule by content and ruin your spirit?
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