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Why do people censor fuck or other profanity on the internet? I don't get it, and until now, I've been too afraid to ask.
Murica. Dunno if any other country does censor such trivialities too. And to the deeper why: religious hipocrisy i guess.
Afaik tiktok also heavily censors topics that are considered bad publicity or whatever. In fact, considering that this self-censor trend (edit: this type of self censor trend that utilizes cutting out vowels instead of using euphemisms or not using the words at all) is much much younger than YouTube or Instagram (at least I noticed it only a few months, maybe one or two years ago) I'd say the American companies weren't even the driving force behind it.
Youtube has forced it onto their creators for a while. Censor swears or risk upsetting the almighty algorithm and getting demonetized, because apparently american companies don't like being associated with swearing.
Yeah, but the YouTube culture used to not use swearwords/unwanted words as a result of this. I have recently seen a few videos, where they said prn and sx, including cutting the vowels from the audio. This change in how to deal with the restrictions imposed by the platform is what I don't understand.
Edit: I have edited my comment above to be more precise.
with both tiktok and youtube, nobody actually knows if that's the case, they just assume it
Better yet: Why do such a pathetic job doing it?
Lemmy is bizarrely fond of useless censorship, and I think it's because .ml has a bunch of filters. Which is hilarious. Yes folks, we expect to reach a stateless society with no firm hierarchy, and all boundaries decided by the people. The admin has decided you may not say fuck.
I think its because most of the content is reposted from other places where censoring is the norm.
Where else is that remotely normal?
Minecraft chat, which is what most of these three kids in a trenchcoat are coming from
Instagram, tiktok, tumblr (when reposted to it) to some extent.
I don’t fucking k***.
It's like drinking with brown paper bag censoring. Everybody knows what's going on and it's pointless. So f*ck it. ;)
Exactly! But when did it become the cool thing to do?
It has never been the cool thing to do
Because not everyone is comfortable with swears
Fuck the fucking fuckers. Swearing as much a part of human communication as cadence is.
Puritans can fuck themselves with a pineapple. It's as ridiculous as finding full stops offensive and insisting the rest of the world bow to them by using double commas or something.
Except no one sees the censored thing and doesn't think the word itself. If anything the censor is bringing extra attention to it. It's dumb. If the person posting is scared of the word, they should leave it out. If they're worried other people might fear it then either they should leave it out or not bother censoring because they see it anyway.
clutches pearl necklace
Ew. Anyone got a Kleenex?
I understand that and I prefer to not swear most of the time as well. But these "I'll leave out the vowels" edits don't change the number of swearwords in the sentence.
"If you censor a vowel, the number of swearwords in the sentence remains the same."
- Batman
Fuck em, if they're that thinskinned they're never gonna be happy
Yeah and this puritanical bullshit sends us all tumbling down a slippery slope until it's offensive to teach children anatomy words like penis and vagina. Hmm, and one wonders why practicing christian families have a higher instance of unreported CSA 🤔