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[–] 0ops@piefed.zip 34 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

Why are they censoring themselves?

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

They’re quoting a trump tweet.

[–] 0ops@piefed.zip 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah that's what I'm getting at, the og trump post wasn't censored

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 hours ago

You sure about that?

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

saying "Fucking" is more offensive than praising Allah.

[–] inari@piefed.zip 22 points 6 hours ago (5 children)

Holy fuckin shit it's this one comment every single post. You know exactly why words are censored on social media sites.

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

Because capitalism chopped everyone's gonads off?

[–] abcdqfr@lemmy.world 27 points 6 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Tongue punch my chocolate starfish.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

tongue punch my chocolate starfish yourself, you coward

[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 8 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

You know exactly why words are censored on social media sites.

I actually don't know why mild swear words like "bastard" are self-censored on the neo-Nazi social media website like a superstitious 12-year-old on XBL who thinks their parents might be home so whispers "you're a dumbass bitch" 2 centimeters from the mic.

Please, enlighten us what would happen to this user if they said "bastard" without the asterisk like it makes any difference to "dah algurathamm!!1"

[–] kernelle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Algorithms prefer no swearwords. Many parts of the internet are obsessed with the possibility of going viral.

Personally I also think it's engagementbait, for the same reason OP got a little mad at the same question over and over again.

[–] dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Right. This place had like ten things it talks about and is a subset of the most insufferable of us from Reddit. It has a great benefit though, in that I spend vastly less time online these days.

[–] 0ops@piefed.zip 2 points 6 hours ago

My question is more why are they censoring themselves when the person they're parodying didn't? When the person they are parodying holds likely the highest office in the world today and they themselves are just some random poster?