Why are people censoring "bad" words?
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.
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.
Whatever is censored is being filtered by your instance.
I fucking love the fact that im instance admin
No censorship here. Could've guess with the instance's name but still good to know! Thanks :)
Carlin’s Big 7 + 4, loud’n’clear.
Okay I’m going to eat the onion. What are words 5 and the last one?
C o c k s u c k e r is word 5. T i t s is the last one on that sentence. B i t c h is the last word of the post.
Lemmy.ml sucks. I really need to move on.
Fuck, shit, pussy, ass, motherfucking, damn, bitch Bitch, damn, motherfucking, ass, pussy, shit, fuck
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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.
TikTok and Instagram are squeaky clean?
Some of them coughlemmy.mlcough has a swear filter
edit: world->ml
Fun fact: you won't get told when your stuff is removed or if you get banned. You have to check the modlogs.
This is Lemmy wide.
And looks like it's still up as of 2 hours after you posted
Edit: Spelling
Edit 2: Spleling
Did it work? How about bitch? That one came up often when searching to see where I fucked up with my info.
I think it's not a swear filter, but more like a 'potentially discriminatory terms' filter.
What's a female dog called?
Wow I didn’t know that. Good thing I switched to a different instance (although it was mostly due to poor performance on lemmy.ml at the time).
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.
That makes sense.
I suspect it's largely become a habit from people being on platforms that have automatic blocked word filters.
cause i'm f@cking polite you a$$hole!
[REDACTED] yeah!
Tbh I agree, but not like that. Self-censorship is useful in the sense of a larger vocabulary or unique or silly insults, or slang/code like Jive, but to use a word and still censor that word is preposterous. Just use a differen't word you turkey! Don't just say "d!ck" for "dick," say "weiner," it's more funny anyway.
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.
God I worked at a bar that played NWA but with the naughty words bleeped out. It's a fucking bar! First of many problems with that place.
One show where removing the censor was a detriment: Metalocalypse. They used a guitar sound on our first few seasons, and replacing that with the actual a wear words was just… less funny? I’ve never felt that way about a show before, or since.
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.
At least on android, i find you can enable offensive words in keyboard settings to fix this
Because G-d forbids me from speaking or writing foul language.
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.
To answer your question. They don't like that stuff.
EDIT Having instances censor stuff for you is bad. Users censor themselves is fine.
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Shit mother fucker ass tits cunt cock mother fucker shit ass tits mother fucker shit come on
I still remember.
there is. cant write female dog for example
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.
Why not just cuss around children and teach them when it's appropriate? I've never understood "shielding" them from something they'll get exposed to with or without you. May as well make it a teaching moment.
I agree with this, but you should teach your kids, not other people's kids. I avoid it around kids because their parents don't want me to do it, but I do cuss in casual conversation.
Because teaching takes time, kids don't learn abstract concepts, like social cues, overnight.
Grandma told a funny joke, this is a lighthearted casual situation.
"Great Fucking Joke Grandma!"
It's not shielding them entirely, it's waiting until they are old (read:smart) enough to have a good chance of knowing when it's OK.
Because there really isn't a place where it's nessecary and thus appropriate. Sometimes it's cathartic, but in general it's used as a fallback for when other words and expression fail. In that regard it's less shielding and more setting an example.
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“
@Oha@lemmy.ohaa.xyz Depending on which platform it's on, it would auto-detect any profanity so it the way to bypass it
"Free speech warriors" when people choose to self-censor
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What about n-word? You're thinking about that word right now. Makes no difference wether I use the actual word or not.
That’s a bit different though. We don’t (generally) use “n-word” in place of the slur the way someone might type f!#k or say “frick” in place of “fuck.” We use it to talk about the term. So when someone is censoring themselves with replacement it can feel pointless, since the sentiment is the same: we both know what word you want to use to express yourself, just use it. When you use a censored alternative to a slur, you’re not just swapping one thing in for another leaving your meaning unchanged. You’re communicating an intention to avoid what you know to be a symbol of hate in a context that has no hateful intent.
Well, words like "fuck" or "shit" don't indicate harm and aren't supposed to offend people, so I think people should censor slurs but not swear words. Like, I'm autistic and feel kinda bad whenever I see the r-word being thrown around (I assume that some people have similar experiences with racial slurs), but I don't get the same feeling if someone says "fuck".
O, what dark times.. When passing ruffians can say "Ni!" ..at will, to old ladies.
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
Good to know which instance to avoid!
Sounds shit, the admins must be right bitches
"Being polite and using inclusive language is authoritarian"
White liberals don't try to justify using slurs challenge 2023 [IMPOSSIBLE!]