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Every time a swear word is censored on the internet, a cat video gets a million views, or something like that.
We’ve gone all the way around so now censoring a swear makes people more upset than actually saying it and I really don’t understand why.
Year 2000
Say ‘fuck’
People get irrationally mad
Year 2024
Say ‘fxck’
People get irrationally mad
What happened?
Your comment implicates you are in favour of censoring swear words. Coukd uou enlighten us as to why?
I just feel like people can choose for themselves. As another commenter said it takes a lot of the ‘oomph’ out of the swear which I believe does have a time and place. But many people seem to be over the top ofended if you choose to do so.
I’m certainly not suggesting that ‘everyone needs to censor their swears, think of the women and children!’ But lemmy seems to get more angry than I would consider reasonable if someone does censor themselves.
Best anti-censor swears argument I keep seeing is that people are doing it to be more advertiser friendly which is making the internet worse overall, and I whole heartedly agree with that, but sometimes with no other motive than I would prefer it, I like to say fxck instead of fuck.
If you want to swear then swear. If you don’t want to for whatever reason, then use creativity to get your frustration, need of emphasis, or other emotion through. Choosing to censor yourself is just weak.
I like your comment and I want to posit this.
If you want to swear then swear. Cool, I agree with this as it’s following a simple ‘Do what you want’ kinda thing.
If you don’t want to swear, don’t swear. Again sweet, do what you want.
But what if I want to swear, but I want to censor the swear word, even superficially (replace a vowel with something else, leaving the swear entirely readable where everyone can easily tell what swear is being used)? This is where I’m seeing a ton of people suddenly not as okay with people doing what they want, and that’s what I was trying to get at with this comment chain. Why are people so upset at people censoring themselves in this way?
And I’m not even suggesting that I do this all the time, just in some cases where I specifically want to swear, but softer. Like when I’m trying to make it abundantly clear that I’m not swearing at someone, I’m just swearing in general.
I really hope this doesn’t come across as confrontational and I appreciate that you took the time to reply. This just really feels like something that harms no one but for some reason makes a lot of people mad.
Because self-censorship is done to avoid getting filtered or demonetized on certain platforms due to policies put in place by those platforms to attract advertisers. It is not done because of the person’s moral or ethical beliefs. It’s basically willing compliance with internet enshittification to whitewash everything and make it advertiser friendly.
The younger generations decided that being offended by swear words is fucking stupid.
And those motherfuckers are right.
Fuck y**h!
I’m an older generation and (generally) refrain from swearing myself, but seeing censored posts on Lemmy drives me fucking insane. This isn’t a preschool nor is it an advertiser-friendly place. We should keep it that way.
In fact, we should actively try to make it hostile to advertisements.
Fuck your goods I wipe my ass with your services.
They’re unaliving censorship, or however younger generations say it.
Lmao, the term unaliving is censorship. Tiktok won’t let you say “kill”.
That was their point lawl
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But. Isn’t it gen Z and older A’s censoring shit?
They don’t censor because they’re offended by the words. They censor so platforms like tiktok don’t delete their posts.
In my mind this makes it even worse
In adult-facing parts of the internet, including here, swears are typically used for an extra bit of “oomph” to spice up a sentence or make a point clear. (I know that there’s an actual word for this but I can’t think of it currently.) It’s generally considered neutering that spice if you censor it; case in point is this meme. It just tends to look childish or dumb, especially if the word is just vaguely censored like this meme here again. At least Grawlixes (“$#@&!”) have some mystery as to the word being said.
Intensifiers, goddammit!
If you want to make a post without swear words, just do it. Using a swear word and then censoring it completely defeats the purpose
tbf the cats deserve it
I didn’t censor it so I’m not to blame
Ok you didn’t censor it. But did you consider uncensoring it?
Oh, I wasn’t blaming you one bit. I was just pointing out how odd it is.
It really is odd. What’s even the point? Is it some kind of “saying it without saying it” thing? It’s still explicitly saying it.
Certain platforms will negatively impact an account based off content they find inappropriate.
I don’t know which, because I don’t use any of those fuckin platforms.
I’m pretty certain it’s done just to get comments like yours, the same as deliberately misspelling and rage bait. Everything for more comments, clicks, interaction etc.
that censoring…
My reaction on seeing this was to wonder about the Wendy’s Nasty Patty ™.
He still doesn’t know what’s in the secret sauce though.
Same as literally every “secret sauce”
It’s just thousand island dressing
It literally is just peppery thousand island dressing. Also, the ingredients are on the side of the box the sauce ships in so it’s not even secret to the employees lmao
