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Yes, I'm aware I can curse on the internet - it's not my first day here. I use the exact words I mean to use, and I'm more a fan of the precision F-strike than indiscriminately carpet-bombing the place with "fucks". Stop word-policing me (and others).
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Yeah, this went over about as well as expected. And the irony and hypocrisy of the free speech absolutists coming out of the woodwork to tell us all what we can and can't say is not lost on me.
Ok yea I'm sometimes guilty of this, but in a more joking kinda way usually
Except when you're posting someone else's content that the creator clearly intended to have a cussword, e.g. a comic, and either you or where you got it from censored it for "the algorithm". That shit is annoying AF
Our problem is not with the way people want to say things—its the necessity to do so due to censorship by corporations in an effort to cleanse everything for advertisers.
Lol the people in these comments who feel like someone choosing to use censored swearing is some kind of commentary on their intelligence or mental age. Fucking unreal. Y'all are no better than any other kind of "cringe police".
I think it kinda sucks, because I hate self censorship and the mechanisms that lead it it
If you want to do it for religious or moral reasons, I don't really care. You do you. I just don't want you censoring yourself for ad friendliness
You can say f*ck on the internet
Won't anybody think of the poor religious fundamentalists trying to impose their stunted world view and twisted values on the majority? It's those people that are responsible for much of the censorship we're facing today.
Wholly mother-forking shirt balls!
Language conveys meaning. The words have no other purpose. Say fudge, fork, or frak, you still conveyed fuck. So just say what you mean.
written language also conveys tone and embodies the personality of the person writing it.
are you not just arguing against freedom of expression right now?
What are you talking about with free speech absolutists? I think you are trying to reach a different audience than Lemmy because I think most people here think that's stupid.
Real ones say removed (you tried to say bitch on .ml)
Shit you're right. I still hate it though
People should be allowed to do what’s in their comfort zone without fear of reprisal. But I’m still going to believe you’re a child if you can’t even curse in writing
On one hand I don't care. On the other hand I also laugh when someone censors something like b*tt...
The real problem is people feeling the need to self-censor such things at all.
What sort of oppressive failure of a culture raises such values on a person.
If they go over to lemmy.ml, they'll have that all done for them automatically, because communism needs clean language to thrive, apparently.
I don’t give a fat fink if a person doesn’t wish to use adult language, but I inherently object to it being censored being normalized on the internet. I’m old enough to remember being excited when I got to upgrade from 14.4 to 28.8, and still others remember 300 baud.
I know you’re aware you can curse on the web, I just object to it in ways other than politely asking you not to censor your posts especially when the curse word is ordinarily spelled there, but scribbled over, like TikTok content brought over here.
I’m not about to water start wrd-plcng nyne, but I am going to prtst if I see what looks to be an attempt to normalize cnsrshp on lmm*.
***** ********* **** *******. ~(these asterisks mean nothing)~
Lots of people don't like to swear in person, or will follow it with something like 'oops, did I say that out loud'.
I've never understood being upset when people self-censor online too. How does someone else not swearing effect you?
The reason behind self censoring is what people are responding to, and how people do it shows the cause.
The most common reason for people to self censor by hiding a letter or two is to get past world filters imposed by multibillion dollar industries. Chat in games, social media platforms, and other places have draconian rules that people work around and thn drag those habits to other places where it isn't necessary to remind everyone that billion dollar companies are ruining the internet. It used to be kind of funny when it was one or two companies addressing actual toxic behavior, but not people are censoring terms like rape when discussing it as a social problem that needs to be addressed.
If someone is thinking "What a fucking moron." there are many ways to self censor.
"What a moron." Self censoring by not using the word at all is perfectly fine.
"What a f*cking moron." looks like someone is trying to say something hut is scared of a filter from the word police.
"Trmp is a fcking moron." is like someone whispering about someone because they are afraid of being heard. Yes, I've started to see names getting the same treatment because of whatever stupid reason.
Sure, they can do whatever they want but I'm going to judge them for it.
I don't care about people "not swearing".
Writing f*ck is swearing, just extra stupid.
You can speak in goo-goo ga-ga talk but I’ll interpret that active choice of lingo as coming from the mind of an infant
holy forking shirt-balls! you're right!
If you want to avoid profanity, then simply don't use it at all rather than doing whatever this is. This is just tacky.