I always find it funny how in other countries, there isn't so much a stigma for kids being exposed to cursing and swearing in something like cartoons. I have always hated how music even has to be censored to appease the—let's face it—minority (probably religious) who happen to like everything else about the song except for language they deem unworthy. The artist expresses themselves with honesty. If you can't handle that, tough shit. Listen to a podcast or Kidsbop. FFS

The internet being censored is one of the most incredibly ridiculous things to happen in our lifetime. Nothing missed the point harder than corporate internet. Even that's an oxymoron.

Hot take: the amount of whining and bitching about the censoring is INFINITELY more annoying and insufferable than reading f*ck occasionally

Honestly, same.

I always found it funny when I see a censored middle finger on TV in the US. It's like they are drawing more attention to it by censoring it. And everyone knows what's behind the pixelation. It's so pointless.

I know, I feel bad. One of the favorite things I used to say back in the frumpin' day was "Dude, it's the internet, you can cuss here".

Then slowly over the years, site after site after site after site after site started implementing rules against profanity. Not even in a somewhat sane, reasonable, or consistent way either. Which made it all the worse.

And now, annoying as it is for me personally, I just bite my t0%#$#gue and move on.

Still find it incredibly ridiculous that you can get banned from a certain R-word site for using the R-word, but calling someone or referring to them as a "cocksucker" is apparently perfectly acceptable.

With an audio track I feel like a well timed bleep can actually make a scene funnier. Doesn't work as well if you're trying to play it serious though.

When it comes to text censoring isn't worth it IMO, at least the type where you blank out part of the word or use a derivative. Everyone can still tell what word you meant so if it was important enough to include then use the actual word. If it wasn't that important then you don't need to write the word you're worried about in the first place - there are other words that can be used for insults or emphasis.

I actually like censored swear words in written text. At least when they are censored enough that you can't tell what the swearword is, but you know the intention behind it.

Deliberate misspellings are obnoxious though

Well, yeah. Censoring isn't everywhere because people complained, it's because advertisers complained.

It is annoying. You know what you wanted to write. We know what you wanted to write. The algorithm know what you wanted to write. And if you're so inclined, your god/gods knows what you wanted to write.

If you write "f*ck this sh!t", you've offended exactly the same number of people you would have with "fuck this shit". Stop acting like a posing saint and just say what you're saying anyway.