WHY IS THE TITLE CENSORED!? THIS IS THE INTERNET - YOU CAN SAY RULE , LOSER!
this post was submitted on 12 Dec 2024
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It is annoying though. Fuck.
s*rry...
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.
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.
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.
I often resort to non-ASCII lookalike characters instead
Interesting, got a link?
I regularly use this page.
Unfortunately it looks like the font lemmy-ui uses really fucked up the 'h' lookalike:
on my phone when I wrote that comment last night I thought I could just about see the difference between the lookalike 'u' and a real 'u' because it wasn't the same height as the (real) 'c' next to it. But I may have been imagining that.
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Yea I fuck**g hate it
lm*o
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!
I thought it was to get around algorithms suppressing things that aren't considered "family friendly."
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I think censoring t** wrong fucking words is funnier
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
If you do this, I will never not make fun of you.
At this point why not just have an uncensoring bot that corrects this kind of stuff
I genuinely would like that. I do not want to use a web controlled by pro-advertiser policies or pearl-clutching daftness.
Weird trend across all platforms the last few years. In the days of broadcast media the FCC could regulate content. Then advertisers privatized the role. Then the Internet revived the free for all of public access. Then somebody worked some kind of Queen Victoria magic on content creators to get them to both write and visually bleep parts of words on behalf of the advertisers and publishers.
Put the swears back, kthxbi
H@nd h0lding.
True, the selfcensorship on lemmy is fucking disg*sting at this point!
Should have censored "censored".
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.
Personally I just hate the brain disruption of partially censored things. Whole words, sure, my brain smoothly fills it in, but asterisks in the middle of words fuck with it. I don't have any problem with someone not wanting to swear, but the concept of someone not wanting to swear and then doing so anyways and half assedly covering it is bizarre to me
my brain just turns asterisks into glottal stops
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.
That rememembers me when I was bullied in reddit for censor the name of brands when I was talking about piracy.
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