Why are people censoring "bad" words?

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

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.

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

Some of them coughlemmy.mlcough has a swear filter

edit: world->ml

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.

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

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.

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).

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

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

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

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

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Generally I don't care about words like bitch, fuck, shit, but there are certain servers and communities where cusses or other words are used harmfully towards groups that the community or server is inteded to be a supportive place for, and when they come up in discussion, even just as examples as what was said to them are rightfully censored or have a trigger warning placed in front.

Community mods and server operators can get overboard with this but they get that privilege because they do the work to moderate it anyway.

Fuck Shit Stack

To answer your question. They don't like that stuff.

EDIT Having instances censor stuff for you is bad. Users censor themselves is fine.

Wow that's fucked up

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I have a habit born out of having young kids around of cartoonizing more expressive language that leaks over into online conversations. There might be a bit of that going on along side the more censorship style responses put out elsewhere.

"Free speech warriors" when people choose to self-censor

@Oha@lemmy.ohaa.xyz Depending on which platform it's on, it would auto-detect any profanity so it the way to bypass it

What about n-word? You're thinking about that word right now. Makes no difference wether I use the actual word or not.

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