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Why are people censoring "bad" words?
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this post was submitted on 23 Nov 2023
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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
On lemmy.ml at least, there's a very good reason cause the admins are authoritarians. Can't even say "bitch" without it getting removed.
Good to know which instance to avoid!
So then that leads to the question: why is lemmy.ml run by a bunch of prudish babies?
I’m just surprised I haven’t been banned from .ml yet for calling out tankies when they do shitty tankie things.
Fun fact 1: if you do get banned or have your comments removed you'll only know if you check the modlogs. And likely only if you check the modlogs of the instance that took action against you as the modlogs don't fully sync between each other.
Fun fact 2: you have been in the past, here's a link to the mod actions against you on .ml
Fun fact 3: and so have I, I only just recently finished a 2 week ban over here on .ml for calling that kind of stuff out on here.
Edit: That didn't take long @gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works looks like you got banned for your comment.
Sounds shit, the admins must be right bitches
"Being polite and using inclusive language is authoritarian"
You can be goddamn polite and still swear without automatically becoming a fucking asshole.
What you say can oftentimes be more important than the words you use to express the idea
Here's a great stand-up routine that highlights what I mean. Fair warning: there's some pretty NSFW language in it.
"There are no bad words, but there are several bad ways to express what you mean"
--Me (tho I'm sure someone way smarter than I has put out the same idea, but better worded, ironically enough)
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Although I totally get why lemmy.ml would want to do something like that, it's not "being polite...", it's "enforcing politeness..."
If you gave "authoritarian" to an AI that determined what it meant through it use alone, it would think it means "Won't let me be a nazi"