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.
I don’t care if people censor their swears, my problem is the word substitutions making whatever they’re saying nigh unreadable like “Unalive”, “grape”, “PDF file”.
PDF file?
Edit: oh wait. I had to say it out loud. Pedophile.
Peter File.
Seems easy to read and understand to me
the only thing more annoying than someone self-censoring are the billion people telling them to stop self-censoring
like we get it, we don’t need 20000 replies saying the same thing!!!
I suppose i don’t see the point.
The reader knows what you censored either way, so by using the words and then censoring them you don’t achieve your implied preference for reducing vulgarity in communication (so it might be more impactful and irregular when applied) at all.
Anyone who reads “forking shut” knows what you are writing there in reality. Kinda feels to me like putting on censored porn to make it family friendly, that’s not working. Either watch a family movie, or some actual porn in private.
The only reasonable course of action would be to avoid vulgarity and those stand-ins for it completely in your communication.
You’re missing the point. The fact you’re inferring that the writer is trying to “sneak a meaning past”, or “reduce vulgarity”, or “make it family friendly” is all assumptions.
If someone wants to say…
They want to. That’s it. Stop word-policing people…
See my response down below. I dont police, I’m just saying there is a logical inconsistency here. You want to swear, then do. You dont like it, then don’t. Using censored swears accomplishes neither.
It’s. Not. Censorship. I really can’t be any clearer than that. Censorship is when your intended words or ideas are suppressed. No matter how many downvotes OP receives, it changes nothing. All words are made up, and if you think they should use different made-up words, then yes you fucking are word-policing.
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.
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’m just curious but is your post about saying fuck or shit or is it more about self censorship in terms of vocab made up by tiktok, like unalive or pewpew? I think there’s a lot of confusion about whether youre talking about normal cursewords or tiktok brain.
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
Don’t self-censor the way you want to! Self-censor the way I tell you to!
It feels infantile and childish to me when grown ass adults use cutie wootie wordy cursies to get around speaking like humans.
Who cares if they even are, who the fuck are you to prevent them from speaking how they want to
I didn’t prevent anyone from sounding stupid.
I’ll have to admit it doesn’t sound great and fair, I assumed you were actively against people saying this like some other in the comments
I’m not against it per se, although I’m against most forms of censorship to appease religious or political pressures. I tend to assume people who self censor swear words are religious or dumb though.
Or just because you’re around kids
Are adults not allowed to be childish and to like cute things? The older I get the more strength I’m finding to stand by my own childishness.
Sure, and the rest of us are allowed to find that fucking cringe.
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Using the word Fork instead of Fuck IS a result if policing. We just want to undo that
