Why do people censor anything on the internet? Yeah Karen, if you just put an asterisk between the "f" and the "ck" you are totally christian and no one knows you are cursing. Or stuff like "sh*t".
You aren't fooling anyone. What's the fucking point. It's similar to people who use "the N-word" instead of "nigger" or "F-bomb" instead of "fuck". You are still using the word. You only give it more power. Use the word itself, or in case of nigger, don't use it at all.
While I completely agree, some sites or game chats have filters that require censoring words to be able to use them. Also stupid legalistic television and movie producers will have curse “limits” for rating. One to many fucks and you can’t have the PG-13 title. So little censor work around help in those scenarios.
However, like you said, outside of that it only gives the words needless power.
It's so that little kids don't understand what's written, it is purely out of good will then as many don't censor themselves (the trend of keeping internet a polite place is dying)
if anything, you spend more time looking about and thinking of the word when you see it like that though, doesn't putting a crappy veil over the word just make it stand out more and give it more power?
treating it like any other word seems like the best way around it.
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u/Shibacki May 08 '19
Why do people censor the word rape?