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Why are people censoring "bad" words? (lemmy.ohaa.xyz)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Whats the point of writing prn, f@ck, sht or anything like that instead of the actual words? You can still read them, its not like they are gone if you replace a letter or two.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Test removed fuck shit

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Cannot say female dog

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

Generally I don't care about words like bitch, fuck, shit, but there are certain servers and communities where cusses or other words are used harmfully towards groups that the community or server is inteded to be a supportive place for, and when they come up in discussion, even just as examples as what was said to them are rightfully censored or have a trigger warning placed in front.

Community mods and server operators can get overboard with this but they get that privilege because they do the work to moderate it anyway.

[–] hal_5700X 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Fuck Shit Stack

To answer your question. They don't like that stuff.

EDIT Having instances censor stuff for you is bad. Users censor themselves is fine.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

Fuck Shit Stack

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (10 children)

I have a habit born out of having young kids around of cartoonizing more expressive language that leaks over into online conversations. There might be a bit of that going on along side the more censorship style responses put out elsewhere.

[–] MrBakedBeansOnToast 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Reminds me of the show „the good place“. Thought the replacements there are quite good. Like shirt, fork, bench, ash, deck, cork. The k in fork makes it hit better while „fudge“ just doesn’t scratch that itch when you need to express yourself with „fuck“