• @toynbee
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    15 hours ago

    Usually this is because they are posting to social media and many social media environments use OCR to scan screenshots for “offensive” words. If the scanner finds something it deems unacceptable, the post will get a smaller audience or might even be disallowed.

    The censoring is for the machines, not the people.

    edit: Fixed autocorrect.