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.
No, fuck that.
Either stop self-censoring or don’t structure your comments and sentences to use the word. This half-assed censoring is the lazy coward’s way out
I say the word louder in my head when someone tries to censor it.
For the sake of being doubly contrary, I’m going to say that it’s perfectly acceptable to say “fork” because that is a euphemism that you could verbalise, but saying “f–k” is bad because it isn’t. /s
What are you talking about with free speech absolutists? I think you are trying to reach a different audience than Lemmy because I think most people here think that’s stupid.
I dunno, I think it’s a little childish to censor swear words instead of finding a replacement or just saying the swear, but it’s not that big a deal.
what’s worse is people saying r*pe or rap3 instead of rape, or “sui” or “unalive” instead of suicide. people shouldn’t have to figure out how every Homestuck character would say a word if they wanna block content including these things.
Ay yes lets let corporations rule all of us wven further by proxy. How dare we swear on a medium that could be reuploaded to their platform
Something somewhere has gone sideways. May I ask for an example of that which annoys you?
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.
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.
No, fuck that. Self censorship is shit that has been pushed by companies to sanitize the internet to make websites more appealing to advertisers. It’s how we get people “unaliving” themselves with “pew pews” because people are now too fucking chickenshit to just write what they mean.
If you want to fucking swear, then fucking swear. If you don’t want to, then don’t fucking use some bitch-ass substitute.
Fuck that
The fucking problem with fucking self censorship, is it fucking often comes from people fucking compling with fucking corporate media fucking algorithmic censorship. Then internalizing the fucking limits of online spaces, it’s a fucking sinister infiltration of the human fucking mind, and is driving a fucking shift to the fucking alt-right. Also you can say fuck on the Internet.
Oh no this is sin we will all go to hell \s
Also you can say fuck on the Internet.
Gee, thanks. That’s totally good to know since it’s my first day here and all! 👍
The … problem with … self censorship … is driving a fucking shift to the fucking alt-right
Oh, the fuck it is. See? I wanted to use the word “fuck” that time, and I chose to - I don’t always, and that is my prerogative. Shouldn’t have to worry about self-un-censoring my style of speaking to keep a bunch of internet edgelords from getting their panties in a wad because I didn’t say the swear.
I don’t care either way, it’s all part of online forums. People say something, others agree or disagree.
What I really dislike are Youtube channels having to censor themselves while reading court documents and such, in fear of getting their channel striked or demonetised.
Fuck that self-censorship bullshit.
You can use expletives, or you can use words that aren’t expletives to express what you want to say. Both are valid choices.
Using bowdlerized versions of expletives like a child trying to get away with “naughty” words or a YouTuber/TikToker trying to prevent being demonetized, though? That’s unnecessary to the point of obnoxiousness in an uncensored environment like Lemmy.
People’s fucking speech patterns are being affected by big brother and they are genuinely just ok with it. I don’t know how to explain to someone that changing the way you talk changes the way you think and you are letting corpos do that to you. AND THEN THEY GO AND DEFEND IT.
That’s fine and all, but sometimes it’s funny to use good place style censorship, sometimes people want to keep their language appropriate for cleaner circumstances as they struggle with code switching, and sometimes people want to repost something they saw online without uncensoring it.
Personally I don’t give a flying fuck, a hot damn, a fucking shit, or whatever other expletive one prefers to express indifference and I do hate the rise of advertiser friendly censorship, but also I don’t know if I’m more tired of the complaints about it and complaints about the word “slams” in news headlines, but both are about as certain as finding “first” in a 2010 comments section.
If one wants to keep their cirumstances clean they can chose to not use the word fuck in any way at all. And if you are tired about people protesting censorship your future is gonna be really annoying.
If they don’t want to use those expletives we don’t have to take it in a censored way (our ears are not a toilet)
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?
Motherfucking god damn right!
