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Why are people censoring "bad" words?
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this post was submitted on 23 Nov 2023
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I've seen that for words that are considered to be 'triggers', as if saying 'r@pe' is somehow different at all than just using the normal vowel.
That behavior drives me up the fucking wall, because by munging the word they make it less likely to be caught by user-invoked blocklists. Meaning they're forcing people to be triggered after taking steps to avoid such.
Don't fucking do that shit.
for the blocklist or whatever: rape
A lot of it comes from Tiktok culture. YouTube has started doing it too.
Videos that say "kill", "rape", "died", etc are all deprioritized by the algorithm if not demonetized entirely.
People have been editing subtitles to avoid these words, and the behavior spread.
That makes sense.
I suspect it's largely become a habit from people being on platforms that have automatic blocked word filters.