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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.

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[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago

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.