• @[email protected]
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    619 months ago

    It’s not about censoring language. Or symbols. They are trying to censor ideas. Humans are adaptable.

    If you censor the word fuck, then people will start using substitutions, f this f that, and if you censor the substitution, another substitution will pop up

    • CashewNut 🏴󠁢󠁥󠁧󠁿
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      219 months ago

      Try telling that to the Lemmy.World admins who auto-censor removed. :/

      It’s a fucking British food you bastards! I will die on this hill! Free the removed!

      • @Schal330
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        159 months ago

        Now I need to know what it is. My first thought would be Spotted Dick, but then Dick is a name. Maybe Pork removeds? That one I can understand being removed.

        • @spearz
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          189 months ago

          I think I know what it is. You can buy them in the supermarket. It’s slang for a gay man, rhymes with maggot.

          • @Schal330
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            99 months ago

            Ah yes, I understand why they remove it as I don’t think it’s often used in its other contexts. I do prefer to use it to describe a bundle of sticks

            • @Deestan
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              And Norwegian. It’s hard to converse with countrymen on a platform running word filters for another language.

              Not just playing the instrument “removed”, but discussing school classes with friends and family as we would say “hvilke fag tar du i år?” to ask which classes you take this year. Luckily Lemmyworld isn’t that aggressive, but many online chat services and emails clients have started screaming at “fag”.

              Encountering such filters on a school computer that blocked my emails was particularly frustrating.

          • Neato
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            59 months ago

            Someone has a word that shares the f-slur for a benign food product? Holy shit that’s unfortunate.

        • @[email protected]
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          179 months ago

          Why the fuck is this showing up as “Pork removeds” for me?

          I feel like that guy on Reddit who accidentally set his device’s language to Spanish and asked for help in Reddit, and everyone pranked him by writing their comments in Spanish

    • Chainweasel
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      109 months ago

      It’s called the “euphemism treadmill”. It’s why words like “stupid” and “idiot” aren’t offensive anymore, they were replaced by “retarded” which is slowly coming back because people are starting to use “autistic” in it’s place as an offensive term. Eventually that will also be replaced and “autistic” will be censored.

      • @isles
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        69 months ago

        people are starting to use “autistic” in it’s place as an offensive term.

        I must have run in toxic crowds, because “autism” as a derogatory slur was in vogue circa 2005. I never used it, but I had to dismantle a lot of ableism to accept my own diagnosis.

      • @ThatWeirdGuy1001
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        49 months ago

        As someone who grew up being called retarded because I was autistic it actually really pisses me off how people get their panties all twisted over the word retard.

        I know my experiences aren’t universal but I’ve learned the best way to deal with shit like this is acceptance. “Haha you’re retarded!” “Correct.” “W-wait what…?”