I think you’re blowing your own areas of concern to hyperbolic proportions, but cannot or will not even see why others would find this far more concerning.
There is a war going on between Russia and Ukraine. If you go to Russia's TikTok, you will find no mention of it. Not because someone at TikTok said "let's make a feature that users can opt out of to highlight insensitive things," no, it's because you will go to jail if you upload content that Russia doesn't like.
Let's compare. You say things Google doesn't like, a purple squiggly goes under your words that you have the option to turn off. You say things Russia doesn't like, and armed men barge into your home to take you to jail.
How disconnected from reality do you have to be for me to have to make this comparison explicit???
The existence of the war in Ukraine doesn’t mean we stop caring about anything else. If you got punched in the face, I think you would still care even though there’s a war on.
If anything, the actions Putin is taking to control the information landscape make me much more upset about woke clippy. Liberal society should be about a free exchange of ideas. It’s not just another orthodoxy with soft manipulation instead of hard manipulation for thoughtcrime.
If you don’t understand why this seems manipulative and tone deaf to lots of folks, that means you’re confused. Not right.
If you truly believe worrying about the war is more important than talking about woke clippy here on HN, I’m confused. Why then are you here taking part in this conversation? You clearly don’t care about the issues I (and others) are raising in this thread. But if you actually don’t care, why take part in the discussion at all?
I do think there is a problem that merits discussion. But to ring such alarms and place it in this context doesn't do that discussion justice. There is more nuance to be had.
Makes me sad.