Iv seen posts with people substituting rape with r@pe. Other than bypassing filters I can’t see a reason to censor just 1 letter that doesn’t actually censor the word? I see if you fully censor the word, but even still context completely ruins the censorship.

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[–] 2 points 3 years ago

I suspect sometimes they don't really think about it, it's just something they think "everyone does." But sometimes I think it's an annoying sort of virtue signalling.

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