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[-] Astronauticaldb@lemmy.world 131 points 23 hours ago

Every time a swear word is censored on the internet, a cat video gets a million views, or something like that.

[-] bunnyBoy@pawb.social 44 points 23 hours ago

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?

[-] uienia@lemmy.world 3 points 7 hours ago

Your comment implicates you are in favour of censoring swear words. Coukd uou enlighten us as to why?

[-] bunnyBoy@pawb.social 1 points 57 minutes ago* (last edited 53 minutes ago)

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.

[-] I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 15 points 12 hours ago

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.

[-] Mozingo@lemmy.world 68 points 23 hours ago

The younger generations decided that being offended by swear words is fucking stupid.

[-] cafeinux@infosec.pub 47 points 23 hours ago

And those motherfuckers are right.

[-] cadekat@pawb.social 41 points 23 hours ago

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.

[-] pennomi@lemmy.world 22 points 19 hours ago

In fact, we should actively try to make it hostile to advertisements.

[-] Alwaysnownevernotme@lemmy.world 6 points 12 hours ago

Fuck your goods I wipe my ass with your services.

[-] mhague@lemmy.world 17 points 22 hours ago

They're unaliving censorship, or however younger generations say it.

[-] Mozingo@lemmy.world 20 points 22 hours ago

Lmao, the term unaliving is censorship. Tiktok won't let you say "kill".

[-] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 18 hours ago

That was their point lawl

[-] BirdyBoogleBop@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 23 hours ago

But. Isn't it gen Z and older A's censoring shit?

[-] Mozingo@lemmy.world 17 points 22 hours ago

They don't censor because they're offended by the words. They censor so platforms like tiktok don't delete their posts.

[-] Jimbo@yiffit.net 5 points 13 hours ago

In my mind this makes it even worse

[-] Zos_Kia@lemmynsfw.com 19 points 21 hours ago

I don't remember people being offended by the word fuck in 2000. Sure on TV it could be considered dicey but on the internet it was pretty fair game

[-] Astronauticaldb@lemmy.world 27 points 23 hours ago

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.

[-] wjrii@lemmy.world 10 points 22 hours ago

Intensifiers, goddammit!

[-] rockerface@lemm.ee 13 points 23 hours ago

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

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