• doomcanoe@sh.itjust.works
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    I f**king love how censoring curse words has become the new c*rsing for the internet!

    Used to be that cursing was a way to show your disdain for having restrictions placed on your freedom of expression. Now cursing without censorship is considered “polite internet speech” and adding an * is offensive and uncouth. Your right to express yourself how you choose be d*mned!

    The irony is too good!

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    A fun consequence is the effect that any removed or censored words are effectively vulgar and sexual.

    You f*** in the ****

    You fill in the gaps

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    My problem isn’t if you post OC that you censored, my problem is when people are posting another’s OC that didn’t censor any cuss words.

    Like if you’re reposting a 4-panel comic here that explicitly had cuss words and then you censored it. FUCK THAT.

    Same applies to reposting a tweet or whatever.

    Tl;Dr If you’re posting something that already has uncensored cuss words in it, stop being a bitch and censoring shit.

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    6 hours ago

    I never really understood why people self censor their comments at all. I can’t think of any major social media site that gives a shit. The YouTube algorithm cares, but that’s just for the videos themselves.

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      It’s very common on most social media for comments with swears to get shadow removed. Personally I often resort to non-ASCII lookalike characters instead, because fսсk those sһіttу censorship rules. But it’s also a lot easier to just self-censor.

    • VanillerGoriller@sh.itjust.worksOP
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      I don’t use tik tok so I might be wrong but I think that platform is the main driver of it. My wife uses it and says they have to censor even non-swears like “kill” or “sex” or their video/comment could be removed.

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      It’s pretty silly that using them in a discussion about slurs would upset enough people that it’s better not to.

      If you actually use them as slurs, censoring doesn’t really make you a better person. Telling someone “you’re a fucking r-word” isn’t really all that much nicer than writing out the full thing…

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          Yeah, I guess there are two ways to view these words…

          In one you see the use of the word as a slur as a bad act, in the other you see the word as damaging in itself, like having to watch nsfl gore or something.

          If you feel the word itself is damaging to see, censoring it makes sense. If you just care about people not using slurs, seeing the word itself is fine.

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    At this point why not just have an uncensoring bot that corrects this kind of stuff

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      I genuinely would like that. I do not want to use a web controlled by daft pro-advertiser policies or pearl-clutching daftness.

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    I think it’s funny that some Lemmy users get upset about censoring. In real life I try not to swear much, so that when I do it’s more impactful. Also censoring the word still gets the meaning across.

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      I’m very much of the opinion of “shit or get off the pot”. If you don’t want to swear, cool, don’t. Censoring it reminds me of all the exhausting nonsense and theatre related to “think of the children” (and more recently, “think of the advertisers”). None of that stuff does a lick of good for anyone, except perhaps the swindlers pushing it.