Listening to music on yt, hit a censored word "God dammit!" skip rest of song, force search back to "lyrics" as they are seldom edited like that

The irony is movies shown on TV with people being murdered and blood flying everywhere and bleeping out the swearing.

People complained to advertisers. I remember 2005.

This is what we tried to warn people about when the campaigns to pressure YT to censor people started.

Censorship never stops with the thing you personally want.

Just say "the better English speakers"

I wouldn't even hate it so much if it were spelt better. Ahh reads like the noise the doctor asks you to make. I can't help but read it like that in my head, and my head doesn't like it. I'm not even sure what the phonetically correct spelling would be. Even aaa would be better imo.

I'm not sure what that refers to, and I'm not getting it from the replies.

what is that? what is that "ahh" thing?

Personally, they should all just drink a cup of bleach. Not enough to permanently kill them, just enough to send them to the hospital and give them lifelong injuries.

But I'm currently in a bad mood and just want to wish harm on stooped people. Possibly including myself as I in particularly retarded sometimes.

If you write "f*ck this sh!t", you've offended exactly the same number of people you would have with "fuck this shit".

More people. You've also offended the people who are fucking tired of this censorship bullshit, who would've been completely fine with the uncensored version.

But think of the children upper management! How else will they pitch advertisement opportunities to their providers while promoting healthy environment interactions and maintaining record profits for the next quarter??

👏if you want to censor something, don't write it 👏

Writing is a tool for communication. Writing something implies your desire to communicate it.

This might land a little controversial but I'll go one step further and say you should not censor racial/homophobic slurs if they are not being used for offense. For example:

"I hate my cop neighbor, I heard he called my niece a f***ot"

(I obviously censored it here because lemmy prob. has a filter for that shit.)

In this sentence, I am not attacking anyone and I am simply trying to communicate a bad act done by somebody else. The message of the sentence is not homophobic in any way and me censoring the nasty word definitely didn't change anything about the message. People can still hear that word loud and clear.

So if you think including the word would be offensive for people, and think it's not a crucial part of your message, simply don't write it.

"I hate my cop neighbor, I heard he called my niece a homophobic slur"

There you go. You did not communicate the word f***ot and your audience did not receive it. A successful example of self censorship

Youtube auto censors the subtitles if you don't tick off a setting.

I really dislike the sound they use for censoring. It's so annoying. Plus, why make it so loud? I think they genuinely do it to make it seem worse and grab your attention.

That's probably from back in the analog days where the only ways to censor a word from a live audio feed were to kill the signal or to overlay another, louder noise that renders the undesirable word unintelligible. If the video and audio signals are coupled and you don't wanna interrupt video, that just leaves bleeping over it.

Someone smarter than me is probably gonna correct me, but that's my best guess.

The video "the count censored" is quite good.

I remember an MMO that had a profanity filter bleeping out parts of words with asterisks. I was so confused and frustrated why I couldn't talk to other players about ****ysing whatever it was that needed ****ysis.

Yeah, they had a mechanic called analysing, their own filter made it impossible to talk a out and 13 year old me didn't understand why it was censored. Talk about sane and reasonable.

Honestly, some writers have gotten pretty creative with censorship. Firefly's use of "in universe" curses are a good example.

Plus such classics as the tv edit of The Big Lebowski's "Find me in the alps!"

I would prefer no censorship, but that's no reason to disregard the fine work of creators trying to make the best of a bad situation.

Oh! Good observation! And I agree

I don't think they're referring to grawlixes at all, but rather the censorship when people are texting or speaking.

TIL what those are called.

Recently started reading the primal Hunter book 13 and the author in the recap chapter at the start of the book just went off on a blind tangent pissed off about self-censorship and how retarded it is. It was the most cathartic thing I have read in a long time. Absolutely fantastic.

Also, if you're a fan of lit RPG, highly recommend the primal Hunter books. Great reads! Fantastic audiobooks amazing narrator.

By the same token, if they were singing a song or quoting someone that used a cuss word, we'd rather they say the word than self-censor it. If everyone know what word you mean, what's the point?

What if it's a white person singing a song that contains the slur against black people?

What the fuck does **** mean? I'm so angry. And the beeps are the worse. I'm a very foul speaker, I curse every fucking sentence. It's fucking awesome.

what the fudge?

People who have ‘hot takes’ are even more annoying.

I see more complaints about complainers than actual complaints. You are the problem.

You're getting downvoted and I suspect I'm about to join you, but when I saw the post the first thing I thought was "the guy must must be a Lemmy user" because of all the extended rant threads I've seen here from people getting mad at others who avoid using profanity or choose to self censor. I'm all for fighting against unnecessary enforced censorship from higher ups but it's weird to see people get so mad at someone for just personally wanting to avoid it, using asterisks, or using less offensive substitute words for "real" profanity.

It's just so gosh darned strange, seems like a fracked up reason to crap on someone

I’ve decided I’m going to start doing it specifically to f**k with the whiners

I give no fucks if someone censors or not. Who the fuck do we think we are to tell people to cuss or censor? It's none of our fucking business.