Comic Strips

With an audio track I feel like a well timed bleep can actually make a scene funnier. Doesn't work as well if you're trying to play it serious though.

When it comes to text censoring isn't worth it IMO, at least the type where you blank out part of the word or use a derivative. Everyone can still tell what word you meant so if it was important enough to include then use the actual word. If it wasn't that important then you don't need to write the word you're worried about in the first place - there are other words that can be used for insults or emphasis.

I always found it funny when I see a censored middle finger on TV in the US. It's like they are drawing more attention to it by censoring it. And everyone knows what's behind the pixelation. It's so pointless.

I always find it funny how in other countries, there isn't so much a stigma for kids being exposed to cursing and swearing in something like cartoons. I have always hated how music even has to be censored to appease the—let's face it—minority (probably religious) who happen to like everything else about the song except for language they deem unworthy. The artist expresses themselves with honesty. If you can't handle that, tough shit. Listen to a podcast or Kidsbop. FFS

I know, I feel bad. One of the favorite things I used to say back in the frumpin' day was "Dude, it's the internet, you can cuss here".

Then slowly over the years, site after site after site after site after site started implementing rules against profanity. Not even in a somewhat sane, reasonable, or consistent way either. Which made it all the worse.

And now, annoying as it is for me personally, I just bite my t0%#$#gue and move on.

Still find it incredibly ridiculous that you can get banned from a certain R-word site for using the R-word, but calling someone or referring to them as a "cocksucker" is apparently perfectly acceptable.

I feel the same about trigger warnings where the warnings are more triggering than the content. The ridiculous ones have petered somewhat, but at its peak you'd see stuff like

TW: mental health, suicide, self harm, narcissistic abuse

Post: I feel sad today :( my mum is telling me to clean and she doesn't get me

I actually like censored swear words in written text. At least when they are censored enough that you can't tell what the swearword is, but you know the intention behind it.

Deliberate misspellings are obnoxious though

The internet being censored is one of the most incredibly ridiculous things to happen in our lifetime. Nothing missed the point harder that corporate internet. Even that's an oxymoron.

These memes with little strips of white over a word or letter are so cringe, it makes me feel awkwardness for others policing their own language.. online

I so identify with this lady.

It is annoying. You know what you wanted to write. We know what you wanted to write. The algorithm know what you wanted to write. And if you're so inclined, your god/gods knows what you wanted to write.

If you write "f*ck this sh!t", you've offended exactly the same number of people you would have with "fuck this shit". Stop acting like a posing saint and just say what you're saying anyway.

How else am I supposed to say bri*ish?

Okay, but when they censor words on Metalocalypse they use guitar rifts and I enjoy that over the actual profanity.

We always told our kids that if we heard them saying something hurtful, they were going to get in trouble, whether or not they used a cuss word. If they used a cuss word in a way that wasn't hurtful, we didn't care. The caveat being that lots of other adults, including many teachers, do care, so they should watch their audience.

By the same token, if they were singing a song or quoting someone that used a cuss word, we'd rather they say the word than self-censor it. If everyone know what word you mean, what's the point?

Well, yeah. Censoring isn't everywhere because people complained, it's because advertisers complained.

Honestly, same.

they are called grawlixes in comics. i wonder if the artist used asterisks to avoid this conversation or because they didn't know.

And don’t get me started on people who say ‘ahh’