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Yes, I'm aware I can curse on the internet - it's not my first day here. I use the exact words I mean to use, and I'm more a fan of the precision F-strike than indiscriminately carpet-bombing the place with "fucks". Stop word-policing me (and others).
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Yeah, this went over about as well as expected. And the irony and hypocrisy of the free speech absolutists coming out of the woodwork to tell us all what we can and can't say is not lost on me.
Lots of people don't like to swear in person, or will follow it with something like 'oops, did I say that out loud'.
I've never understood being upset when people self-censor online too. How does someone else not swearing effect you?
I don't care about people "not swearing".
Writing f*ck is swearing, just extra stupid.
It doesn’t affect me. That being said “policing” is a hyperbole. Obviously no one is forcing people to swear, they are just giving them shit when they censor themselves. Those people can still choose to censor themselves even when someone tells them it’s ok to swear.
It’s no more policing than OP ‘policing’ people to not ‘police’ him.
People have opinions. You can’t request others to not have their opinions if you’re going to share yours.
The reason behind self censoring is what people are responding to, and how people do it shows the cause.
The most common reason for people to self censor by hiding a letter or two is to get past world filters imposed by multibillion dollar industries. Chat in games, social media platforms, and other places have draconian rules that people work around and thn drag those habits to other places where it isn't necessary to remind everyone that billion dollar companies are ruining the internet. It used to be kind of funny when it was one or two companies addressing actual toxic behavior, but not people are censoring terms like rape when discussing it as a social problem that needs to be addressed.
If someone is thinking "What a fucking moron." there are many ways to self censor.
"What a moron." Self censoring by not using the word at all is perfectly fine.
"What a f*cking moron." looks like someone is trying to say something hut is scared of a filter from the word police.
"Trmp is a fcking moron." is like someone whispering about someone because they are afraid of being heard. Yes, I've started to see names getting the same treatment because of whatever stupid reason.
Sure, they can do whatever they want but I'm going to judge them for it.
You can say f*ck on the internet
Lol blood hell apprently the comments feel like everyone needs to conform to not saying f%@! Or fork or w/e and saying the whole thing uncensored.
Personally think its funny to self censor.
I think it can be funny when done right, I prefer euphemisms (the more creative the better), second best is a grawlix, and dead last at "I hate it" is just an asterisk or dash.
I don’t give a fat fink if a person doesn’t wish to use adult language, but I inherently object to it being censored being normalized on the internet. I’m old enough to remember being excited when I got to upgrade from 14.4 to 28.8, and still others remember 300 baud.
I know you’re aware you can curse on the web, I just object to it in ways other than politely asking you not to censor your posts especially when the curse word is ordinarily spelled there, but scribbled over, like TikTok content brought over here.
I’m not about to water start wrd-plcng nyne, but I am going to prtst if I see what looks to be an attempt to normalize cnsrshp on lmm*.
***** ********* **** *******. ~(these asterisks mean nothing)~
Oh sure people can self censor and thats fine. It doesnt properly hide the word though. If you said out loud that someone is an "N-word" you have and the people listening have completed that word in their head and could still call you racist for using it, even though you didnt say the word your intentions to are a problem. The concept of using a censored version of a word only works to appease the person saying it.
If you want to remove the curse words just use different words entirely instead of censoring them.
Also, people who curse are more honest than thise that dont.
Wholly mother-forking shirt balls!
Language conveys meaning. The words have no other purpose. Say fudge, fork, or frak, you still conveyed fuck. So just say what you mean.
written language also conveys tone and embodies the personality of the person writing it.
are you not just arguing against freedom of expression right now?
You can speak in goo-goo ga-ga talk but I’ll interpret that active choice of lingo as coming from the mind of an infant
If you want to avoid profanity, then simply don't use it at all rather than doing whatever this is. This is just tacky.
I sometimes use "censored" words because they're ducking hilarious
holy forking shirt-balls! you're right!
I say the word louder in my head when someone tries to censor it.
Next you'll tell me to stop criticizing people's outfits and arguing about the borders of the Midwest. It's not gonna happen.
Fork you
I don't give two shats what you forking say. Live life you duckers.
If they go over to lemmy.ml, they'll have that all done for them automatically, because communism needs clean language to thrive, apparently.
I too want to stop people placing arbitrary rules on my behaviour in public forums by imposing arbitrary rules on how to achieve my goals.
I write fuck 100x more then I say it... so that is cool with me if someone doesnt want to write it
I don't say it very often and it makes me very conscious of the fact that I am saying it when I do
I've posted about this before and met the same results. People are very convinced that the danger of the internet becoming more ad friendly is more important that letting people say what they wanna say. In a way I do get it, but it's annoying not being able to do what you wanna do.