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Why are people censoring "bad" words? (lemmy.ohaa.xyz)
submitted 2 years ago by 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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[โ€“] 23 points 2 years ago

This was a big problem during the 2016 election on reddit. There were armies of idiots who searched for comments containing 'Trump' and would brigade the shit out of it. But if you changed the 'p' to a 'ั€' (the Cyclic character) or changed the 'u' to a 'ีฝ' (the Armenian character) miraculously you wouldn't be brigaded.

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