Censorship is a real problem, but you don’t have to embrace it. That’s just making the problem worse.
I agree, I don’t like all the self censorship that I think comes about from algorithms like tiktok - I’m not talking about ideas, but instead about literal words replacement censorship like “unalive” “seggs” and that like
I want people to be bold enough to use the real word - at least in irl conversation.
It feels way too much like Orwell’s Newspeak
Exactly! I hate how corporations get to control our language now and people just fall in line with it.
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It doesn’t make much sense anyway. You try to take away the power a word has or make it so it’s not readily available, but that just makes me wonder more about it.
“The f word? Which f word?”
“Why did they put an asterisk to hide ‘abuse’?”
“F*cker” - great censoring. Nobody will ever be able to tell what that word was.
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