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Why are people censoring "bad" words?
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this post was submitted on 23 Nov 2023
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One possible reason is that some words on controversial subjects can attract mobs of posters with an agenda. They search for keywords to find threads to flood with their arguments.
So posters would get in the habit of saying something like "I love p1n3apple on p*zza" to avoid the wrath of pizza purists (made-up example, but substitute with anything more controversial).
This was a big problem during the 2016 election on reddit. There were armies of idiots who searched for comments containing 'Trump' and would brigade the shit out of it. But if you changed the 'p' to a 'ั' (the Cyclic character) or changed the 'u' to a 'ีฝ' (the Armenian character) miraculously you wouldn't be brigaded.