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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.

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[–] [email protected] 151 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 145 points 11 months ago (21 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 57 points 11 months ago

I'm on an aussie instance, it just called you a fucken lightweight.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago

No censorship here. Could've guess with the instance's name but still good to know! Thanks :)

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago

Whatever is censored is being filtered by your instance.

I fucking love the fact that im instance admin

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago

Carlin’s Big 7 + 4, loud’n’clear.

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[–] [email protected] 83 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Comes from the social media platforms that auto remove stories that contain certain words. Tiktok, Instagram, etc.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Cool, all the platforms I don't use anyway.

Think I just don't like places that are squeaky clean.

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[–] [email protected] 58 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (14 children)

Some of them coughlemmy.mlcough has a swear filter

edit: world->ml

[–] [email protected] 37 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'm on lemmy.world and there is no fucking swear filter.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago (1 children)

My mistake, I meant .ml, accidentally conflated the two.

I do come across a lot of removed while browsing on my .world account when the blahaj is being iffy, not sure what that is from.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

I think for posters on .ml, the words are actually removed and not just hidden from them. So that's why you see it from other instances on their posts too.

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 11 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 79 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago

for the blocklist or whatever: rape

[–] [email protected] 33 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago

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.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 11 months ago (3 children)

cause i'm f@cking polite you a$$hole!

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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).

[–] [email protected] 24 points 11 months ago

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 'Ρ€' (the Cyclic character) or changed the 'u' to a 'Υ½' (the Armenian character) miraculously you wouldn't be brigaded.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 11 months ago

Habit. If I name my folder "Pron," then nobody who sees my desktop will know what's in it.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Because instances have language filters. On lemmy.ml you can't say "female dog", it shows as "removed"

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago (4 children)

I have noticed that my phone will autocorrect/misrecognize some swears. Fuck is often duck.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago

Because G-d forbids me from speaking or writing foul language.

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