Comment on Oh fuck no

• Mozingo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The younger generations decided that being offended by swear words is fucking stupid.

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  • cafeinux@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    And those motherfuckers are right.

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    • Klear@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Fuck y**h!

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  • cadekat@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m an older generation and (generally) refrain from swearing myself, but seeing censored posts on Lemmy drives me fucking insane. This isn’t a preschool nor is it an advertiser-friendly place. We should keep it that way.

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    • pennomi@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      In fact, we should actively try to make it hostile to advertisements.

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      • Alwaysnownevernotme@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Fuck your goods I wipe my ass with your services.

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  • mhague@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    They’re unaliving censorship, or however younger generations say it.

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    • Mozingo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Lmao, the term unaliving is censorship. Tiktok won’t let you say “kill”.

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      • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        That was their point lawl

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  • BirdyBoogleBop@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    But. Isn’t it gen Z and older A’s censoring shit?

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    • Mozingo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      They don’t censor because they’re offended by the words. They censor so platforms like tiktok don’t delete their posts.

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      • Jimbo@yiffit.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        In my mind this makes it even worse

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• Astronauticaldb@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  In adult-facing parts of the internet, including here, swears are typically used for an extra bit of “oomph” to spice up a sentence or make a point clear. (I know that there’s an actual word for this but I can’t think of it currently.) It’s generally considered neutering that spice if you censor it; case in point is this meme. It just tends to look childish or dumb, especially if the word is just vaguely censored like this meme here again. At least Grawlixes (“$#@&!”) have some mystery as to the word being said.

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  • wjrii@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Intensifiers, goddammit!

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• Zos_Kia@lemmynsfw.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I don’t remember people being offended by the word fuck in 2000. Sure on TV it could be considered dicey but on the internet it was pretty fair game

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• I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Because self-censorship is done to avoid getting filtered or demonetized on certain platforms due to policies put in place by those platforms to attract advertisers. It is not done because of the person’s moral or ethical beliefs. It’s basically willing compliance with internet enshittification to whitewash everything and make it advertiser friendly.

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• rockerface@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  If you want to make a post without swear words, just do it. Using a swear word and then censoring it completely defeats the purpose

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• uienia@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Your comment implicates you are in favour of censoring swear words. Coukd uou enlighten us as to why?

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  • bunnyBoy@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I just feel like people can choose for themselves. As another commenter said it takes a lot of the ‘oomph’ out of the swear which I believe does have a time and place. But many people seem to be over the top ofended if you choose to do so.

    I’m certainly not suggesting that ‘everyone needs to censor their swears, think of the women and children!’ But lemmy seems to get more angry than I would consider reasonable if someone does censor themselves.

    Best anti-censor sewers argument I keep seeing is that people are doing it to be more advertiser friendly which is making the internet worse overall, and I while heartedly agree with that, but sometimes with no other motive than I would prefer it, I like to say fxck instead of fuck.

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    • rautapekoni@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      If you want to swear then swear. If you don’t want to for whatever reason, then use creativity to get your frustration, need of emphasis, or other emotion through. Choosing to censor yourself is just weak.

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      • bunnyBoy@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        I like your comment and I want to posit this.

        If you want to swear then swear. Cool, I agree with this as it’s following a simple ‘Do what you want’ kinda thing.

        If you don’t want to swear, don’t swear. Again sweet, do what you want.

        But what if I want to swear, but I want to censor the swear word, even superficially (replace a vowel with something else, leaving the swear entirely readable where everyone can easily tell what swear is being used)? This is where I’m seeing a ton of people suddenly not as okay with people doing what they want, and that’s what I was trying to get at with this comment chain. Why are people so upset at people censoring themselves in this way?

        And I’m not even suggesting that I do this all the time, just in some cases where I specifically want to swear, but softer. Like when I’m trying to make it abundantly clear that I’m not swearing at someone, I’m just swearing in general.

        I really hope this doesn’t come across as confrontational and I appreciate that you took the time to reply. This just really feels like something that harms no one but for some reason makes a lot of people mad.

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