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Holy fucking shit. I almost was exposed to a swear word on the Internet by some asshole cunt. That bitch didn’t know it’s fucking illegal to swear on the Internet. Thank fucking god someone blurred a very small part of there of five letters making it impossible to read the word “shit”. I was about to shit a fucking brick.
fuck
edit: @TrojanRoomCoffeePot@lemmy.world took the time to edit it to remove the censor, so I changed the image in the post to that. Thanks!
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If you don’t want to swear, don’t swear. Mildly censoring a swear word to “f*ck” doesn’t accomplish anything. Everyone who reads it knows exactly what it says. And if you go far enough to make it unrecognizable, like “!@#*”, now you’re just pretending to swear, but for what purpose? Couldn’t you accomplish your goals by rephrasing to avoid a swear word entirely? (Assuming your goal is to avoid swear words, of course. If the goal is to sound like a cartoon character, consider taking up a funny catch phrase.)
Edit: Oh, and this is missing the original point entirely: the original post said “fkn”. That is their freedom of speech. Someone else decided to censor it before sharing. That is not covered under their freedom of speech (well, technically it is, but it’s also a clear case of censorship.) If the original post didn’t contain any censorable words, that is completely up to the author. But if you share a post and felt the need to inject your personal belief that “fkn” is a no-no word? Nobody asked.
What if I don’t “not want to swear”, what if I want to used self-censored curse words?
Should I sacrifice my freedom of speech to appease others? Cuz that sounds an awful lot like censorship to me.
Edit to answer your edit: Oh, and this is not missing the original point… at all. It is more than fair to say who ever originally censored the post was doing so against whoever originally posted it’s wishes and that’s obviously uncalled for and uncool.
But when that was screen capped and posted here, OP didn’t care to un-censor it or look for an uncensored version. They were forced to preform a kind of “Topsy-turvy” censorship, in which their original post was considered “offensive language”, and had to re-upload the image to appease the crowd (though OP clearly appreciated the effort the other lemming put into changing it, so it’s not like they were “un-censored against their will”. So not really a big deal frankly). Still, that leads very nicely into my original (and thus the original) point.
My original point is just that I find it funny how censorship used to be polite speech, and is now considered impolite in circles such as these. And that point is aging like fine wine with how much people are trying to tell me that my freedom of speech is offensive to them. (Sure, you could say you don’t find it technically offensive, but you are asking me to change it or otherwise telling me it’s the “wrong” way to speak).
What is your point? You don’t want to swear, but you don’t not want to swear either? Maybe sort out your beliefs then.
I’ve got my beliefs sorted, I want to be able to express myself however I choose. Including using censored curse words if I so choose.
And my point is, as I’ve said a few times, that I find it funny how censorship has gone from “polite” to “offensive”.