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Why are people censoring "bad" words?
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On Lemmy, there's no good reason. But they may be carrying over habits from other sites where there is harsh censorship of non-advertiser-friendly language
On lemmy.ml at least, there's a very good reason cause the admins are authoritarians. Can't even say "bitch" without it getting removed.
Good to know which instance to avoid!
So then that leads to the question: why is lemmy.ml run by a bunch of prudish babies?
A better question is why do you feel the need to die on the hill of using slurs?
Because swearing is a natural part of the human experience and most level headed people don’t feel the need to suppress human expression.
Swearing serves an important biological need to express emotion and communicate. Psychologically, we swear to express strong emotions and when people swear, they are inherently viewed as more trustworthy or honest. Swearing helps people bond.
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"Bitch" is not a slur. It is a swear. Swears are fine, slurs are not. They are not equivelant, and shouldn't be treated as such.
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I’m just surprised I haven’t been banned from .ml yet for calling out tankies when they do shitty tankie things.
Fun fact 1: if you do get banned or have your comments removed you'll only know if you check the modlogs. And likely only if you check the modlogs of the instance that took action against you as the modlogs don't fully sync between each other.
Fun fact 2: you have been in the past, here's a link to the mod actions against you on .ml
Fun fact 3: and so have I, I only just recently finished a 2 week ban over here on .ml for calling that kind of stuff out on here.
Edit: That didn't take long @gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works looks like you got banned for your comment.
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"Being polite and using inclusive language is authoritarian"
You can be goddamn polite and still swear without automatically becoming a fucking asshole.
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Although I totally get why lemmy.ml would want to do something like that, it's not "being polite...", it's "enforcing politeness..."
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Let's just get this out of the way...
Shit piss fuck cunt cocksucker motherfucker tits. And sometimes fart turd twat bitch.
Whatever is censored is being filtered by your instance.
I'm on an aussie instance, it just called you a fucken lightweight.
No censorship here. Could've guess with the instance's name but still good to know! Thanks :)
Whatever is censored is being filtered by your instance.
I fucking love the fact that im instance admin
Carlin’s Big 7 + 4, loud’n’clear.
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Comes from the social media platforms that auto remove stories that contain certain words. Tiktok, Instagram, etc.
Cool, all the platforms I don't use anyway.
Think I just don't like places that are squeaky clean.
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I've seen that for words that are considered to be 'triggers', as if saying 'r@pe' is somehow different at all than just using the normal vowel.
That behavior drives me up the fucking wall, because by munging the word they make it less likely to be caught by user-invoked blocklists. Meaning they're forcing people to be triggered after taking steps to avoid such.
Don't fucking do that shit.
for the blocklist or whatever: rape
A lot of it comes from Tiktok culture. YouTube has started doing it too.
Videos that say "kill", "rape", "died", etc are all deprioritized by the algorithm if not demonetized entirely.
People have been editing subtitles to avoid these words, and the behavior spread.
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I have been watching Rick and Morty lately and every now and then I have to change the site to find a version of the episode I'm watching where swear words aren't censored. Like, it's a show made for adults full of violent and sexual themes, so I think that most viewers have heard the word "fuck" before. I hate it so much when people censor "bad words", even though nothing prevents them from saying them.
There's a bar in my area that has the TouchTunes jukebox set up to be censored. I'm an adult at a fucking bar and I can't listen to something with a swear word, ha ha.
One time I was at a MicroCenter (kind of like Best buy) and Nine Inch Nails' "Closer" came on the store music. I was like who the fuck plays a radio edit of this song what's the point?
It was not a radio edit. We all heard "wanna fuck you like an animal" in all its original glory. A+ would buy wireless keyboard from there again.
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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 'р' (the Cyclic character) or changed the 'u' to a 'ս' (the Armenian character) miraculously you wouldn't be brigaded.
Habit. If I name my folder "Pron," then nobody who sees my desktop will know what's in it.
Because instances have language filters. On lemmy.ml you can't say "female dog", it shows as "removed"
I have noticed that my phone will autocorrect/misrecognize some swears. Fuck is often duck.
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Because G-d forbids me from speaking or writing foul language.
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