• cadekat@pawb.social
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    2 months ago

    Why do people censor fuck or other profanity on the internet? I don’t get it, and until now, I’ve been too afraid to ask.

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      2 months ago

      Murica. Dunno if any other country does censor such trivialities too. And to the deeper why: religious hipocrisy i guess.

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        2 months ago

        Afaik tiktok also heavily censors topics that are considered bad publicity or whatever. In fact, considering that this self-censor trend (edit: this type of self censor trend that utilizes cutting out vowels instead of using euphemisms or not using the words at all) is much much younger than YouTube or Instagram (at least I noticed it only a few months, maybe one or two years ago) I’d say the American companies weren’t even the driving force behind it.