Well, you’ve made an assumption and I get it now, but it’s wrong.

Aside from Lemmy and Reddit, and mostly Lemmy these days, I’m not on any social media at all. I’ve never been on TikTok. I quit Facebook a year after I joined it - horrified by what it was doing - in 2007. I’ve never been on Twitter, I’ve never been on Twitch or Instagram, I’ve never been on any site where I had to avoid a filter, ever. In my life. Before reddit it was something awful and before that usenet. I’m fucking old.

So I didn’t use the word because I am capitulating to capitalist censorship. I used the word here - and iirc I have used it in the past - as what I thought was simply a wry euphemism implying state-sponsored spycraft/murder. I consider the word assassination to be too “bottom-up” of a term - citizens assassinate presidents, not the other way around. Murder is too generic, murder is what criminals do or people do in crimes of passion. So I used “unalived” because I’m talking about a state actor doing something to a citizen.

I did not know that it carried any other meaning, nor that it came to prominence from circumventing censorship algorithms. I would have had no way to know.

Edit: I would never use some goofy shit like “seggs” for “sex” ffs, so I do see people here and on reddit who are in the habit of circumventing filters - but there’s nothing about “unalived” that screamed anything other than “wry euphemism” to me.