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Why are people censoring "bad" words? (lemmy.ohaa.xyz)

submitted 10 months ago by Oha@lemmy.ohaa.xyz to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Whats the point of writing prn, f@ck, sht or anything like that instead of the actual words? You can still read them, its not like they are gone if you replace a letter or two.

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[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 152 points 10 months ago (59 children)

On Lemmy, there's no good reason. But they may be carrying over habits from other sites where there is harsh censorship of non-advertiser-friendly language

[–] zacher_glachl@lemmy.world 40 points 10 months ago (58 children)

On lemmy.ml at least, there's a very good reason cause the admins are authoritarians. Can't even say "bitch" without it getting removed.

[–] little_hermit@lemmus.org 32 points 10 months ago

Good to know which instance to avoid!

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