which one feels more vulgar or offensive?
“fuck”
“****”
What the fuck does **** mean? I’m so angry. And the beeps are the worse. I’m a very foul speaker, I curse every fucking sentence. It’s fucking awesome.
MAGA
F
uck’n A.I love it when the tough guy alpha male MAGAts on various social media are so bad they self-censor words they know will get them banned.
Conversely, I hate how so many types of social media are self-censoring words because they’re trying not to lose views according to an algorithm. It demeans the terrible severity when someone talks about rape by calling it ‘grape’, for instance. ‘Unalived’ is the most fucking ridiculous one.
Now f**k off, or I’ll unpleasant you!
Recently started reading the primal Hunter book 13 and the author in the recap chapter at the start of the book just went off on a blind tangent pissed off about self-censorship and how retarded it is. It was the most cathartic thing I have read in a long time. Absolutely fantastic.
Also, if you’re a fan of lit RPG, highly recommend the primal Hunter books. Great reads! Fantastic audiobooks amazing narrator.
I really dislike the sound they use for censoring. It’s so annoying. Plus, why make it so loud? I think they genuinely do it to make it seem worse and grab your attention.
Another thing I hate is when the subtitles are censored but not the audio. That’s actually pretty ableist if you think about it. They should match. If the audio is censored, censor the subtitles. If the audio is uncensored, don’t censor the subtitles. It infantilizes people who are hard of hearing as if they can’t handle a swear.
I d**d
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 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
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.
The video “the count censored” is quite good.
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.
This is the internet we arnt doctors and the dsm5 can’t suck a fat retarded cock.
Got banned by the auto mod on a sub because I said the word retardant.
The topic was about fucking asbestos. A FIRE RETARDANT MATERIAL.
When I asked wires band I was told because I used the word retarded and it’s no longer medically accepted word per the DSM-5. Ever since then I’ve basically considered the DSM-5 to be the worst f****** thing in the world f*** that piece of s*** f*** people f*** Reddit.
I do wish I could make the voice to text stop censoring words but I’ve given up on that too. So I just accept that if I want to use voice to text then my f****** words are going to be f****** censored. At least it uses the correct number of asterisks so you know what I’m saying. It’s not shortened or randomly garbled up which to me is even worse.
Interesting how similar my case was. I picked up a 72 hour ban from that site for using the word “retard” in the context of providing advice on how to retard (aka slow) the growth of mold.
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
What the frak is up with censorship these days.
I feel the same about trigger warnings where the warnings are more triggering than the content. The ridiculous ones have petered somewhat, but at its peak you’d see stuff like
TW: mental health, suicide, self harm, narcissistic abuse
Post: I feel sad today :( my mum is telling me to clean and she doesn’t get me
These memes with little strips of white over a word or letter are so cringe, it makes me feel awkwardness for others policing their own language… online
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.
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.
👏if you want to censor something, don’t write it 👏
Writing is a tool for communication. Writing something implies your desire to communicate it.
This might land a little controversial but I’ll go one step further and say you should not censor racial/homophobic slurs if they are not being used for offense. For example:
“I hate my cop neighbor, I heard he called my niece a f***ot”
(I obviously censored it here because lemmy prob. has a filter for that shit.)
In this sentence, I am not attacking anyone and I am simply trying to communicate a bad act done by somebody else. The message of the sentence is not homophobic in any way and me censoring the nasty word definitely didn’t change anything about the message. People can still hear that word loud and clear.
So if you think including the word would be offensive for people, and think it’s not a crucial part of your message, simply don’t write it.
“I hate my cop neighbor, I heard he called my niece a homophobic slur”
There you go. You did not communicate the word f***ot and your audience did not receive it. A successful example of self censorship
bad word bad! no context! only hurt feelings! whos feelings? an imaginary person that might get offended! also they are underage.
But think of the
childrenupper management! How else will they pitch advertisement opportunities to their providers while promoting healthy environment interactions and maintaining record profits for the next quarter??If you write “f*ck this sh!t”, you’ve offended exactly the same number of people you would have with “fuck this shit”.
More people. You’ve also offended the people who are fucking tired of this censorship bullshit, who would’ve been completely fine with the uncensored version.
…but it was the right more people…
