Yes, I’m aware I can curse on the internet - it’s not my first day here. I use the exact words I mean to use, and I’m more a fan of the precision F-strike than indiscriminately carpet-bombing the place with “fucks”. Stop word-policing me (and others).
Edited to add alt text.
Yeah, this went over about as well as expected. And the irony and hypocrisy of the free speech absolutists coming out of the woodwork to tell us all what we can and can’t say is not lost on me.
No, fuck that.
Either stop self-censoring or don’t structure your comments and sentences to use the word. This half-assed censoring is the lazy coward’s way out
thats forking bullshirt
Wait why can’t I say fork?
first sign of [spoiler]. you can’t even say fuck as you wish.
Don’t self-censor the way you want to! Self-censor the way I tell you to!
imo dont self-censor at all… either swear or don’t, but don’t “ohhh can’t say the naughty words”
do what you want, but it’s fucking annoying to read
This
People can obviously say whatever they want, but my opinion is that substituting curse words makes people sound juvenile and the intent is still the same as the original word. You are still making people do a curse conversion in their heads. So why even bother? Kind of like people who won’t say goddamnit, but they’ll say gawldamnit or something like that. Do you think you’re fucking tricking god? There are plenty of other words that can be used for emphasis.
OK but holy forking shirtballs was contextually hilarious and I will always respect a good place reference.
I don’t care if people censor their swears, my problem is the word substitutions making whatever they’re saying nigh unreadable like “Unalive”, “grape”, “PDF file”.
PDF file?
Edit: oh wait. I had to say it out loud. Pedophile.
Peter File.
I refuse to get behind “unalive”
Using the word Fork instead of Fuck IS a result if policing. We just want to undo that
Fuck that self-censorship bullshit.
You can use expletives, or you can use words that aren’t expletives to express what you want to say. Both are valid choices.
Using bowdlerized versions of expletives like a child trying to get away with “naughty” words or a YouTuber/TikToker trying to prevent being demonetized, though? That’s unnecessary to the point of obnoxiousness in an uncensored environment like Lemmy.
People’s fucking speech patterns are being affected by big brother and they are genuinely just ok with it. I don’t know how to explain to someone that changing the way you talk changes the way you think and you are letting corpos do that to you. AND THEN THEY GO AND DEFEND IT.
That’s fine and all, but sometimes it’s funny to use good place style censorship, sometimes people want to keep their language appropriate for cleaner circumstances as they struggle with code switching, and sometimes people want to repost something they saw online without uncensoring it.
Personally I don’t give a flying fuck, a hot damn, a fucking shit, or whatever other expletive one prefers to express indifference and I do hate the rise of advertiser friendly censorship, but also I don’t know if I’m more tired of the complaints about it and complaints about the word “slams” in news headlines, but both are about as certain as finding “first” in a 2010 comments section.
If one wants to keep their cirumstances clean they can chose to not use the word fuck in any way at all. And if you are tired about people protesting censorship your future is gonna be really annoying.
If they don’t want to use those expletives we don’t have to take it in a censored way (our ears are not a toilet)
It feels infantile and childish to me when grown ass adults use cutie wootie wordy cursies to get around speaking like humans.
I guess I understand doing it around children, but I also think children swearing is hilarious, so…
Yeah, there’s nothing quite like the look on the face of a staunchly conservative bigot who’s just been called a racist cunt by a based 8yo kid 😄
Just use curse around children and explain how society handles curse words so they can learn.
I probably swear less since having kids and use more non-swearing expletives (“flipping heck”, “crikey” etc.) in real life speech. Some of that inevitably bleeds into how I write online even though it’s not directed at kids, just because language is habit-forming.
But I really, really hate the “f–k” thing. Either swear or don’t. Swearing like you’re trying to get one over on teacher is weird.
Are adults not allowed to be childish and to like cute things? The older I get the more strength I’m finding to stand by my own childishness.
Sure, and the rest of us are allowed to find that fucking cringe.
I’ve always used frack , has a similar vibe to fuck
BSG, frak yeah!!
The fucking problem with fucking self censorship, is it fucking often comes from people fucking compling with fucking corporate media fucking algorithmic censorship. Then internalizing the fucking limits of online spaces, it’s a fucking sinister infiltration of the human fucking mind, and is driving a fucking shift to the fucking alt-right. Also you can say fuck on the Internet.
Also you can say fuck on the Internet.
Gee, thanks. That’s totally good to know since it’s my first day here and all! 👍
The … problem with … self censorship … is driving a fucking shift to the fucking alt-right
Oh, the fuck it is. See? I wanted to use the word “fuck” that time, and I chose to - I don’t always, and that is my prerogative. Shouldn’t have to worry about self-un-censoring my style of speaking to keep a bunch of internet edgelords from getting their panties in a wad because I didn’t say the swear.
I’m just curious but is your post about saying fuck or shit or is it more about self censorship in terms of vocab made up by tiktok, like unalive or pewpew? I think there’s a lot of confusion about whether youre talking about normal cursewords or tiktok brain.
Oh no this is sin we will all go to hell \s
sure, but I’d still tell people they’re allowed to say the word.
Fuck that
You’re more than welcome to say fork or frell or frack or feth or whatever you want. I LOVE a good “forking shirtballs”
Just understand that if you start typing “f*ck” then people, self included, will assume you are a moron who thinks this is tiktok and you need to keep all your content monetized. Well, some of us are olds and will think you are a moron who doesn’t realize that gets you extra banned on gamefaqs. But most people will assume the tiktok and monetization thing.
i have had it with these monkey-fighting snakes, on this Monday to Friday plane!!!
“You see what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps!”
Yippie ka yay Mr falcon.
TV edit lines do create some of the best comedic lines.
Also the scene from Blazing Saddles where they are eating beans and just stand up and sit down silently for a few minutes because the censors banned fart noises.
Fething admech neutering the noosphere
extra banned on gamefaqs
i am 12 and what is this?
Ay yes lets let corporations rule all of us wven further by proxy. How dare we swear on a medium that could be reuploaded to their platform
No, fuck you.
Fork you f**king f-word!
Get farked
Frak this Shazbat.
I dunno, I think it’s a little childish to censor swear words instead of finding a replacement or just saying the swear, but it’s not that big a deal.
what’s worse is people saying r*pe or rap3 instead of rape, or “sui” or “unalive” instead of suicide. people shouldn’t have to figure out how every Homestuck character would say a word if they wanna block content including these things.
