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| ▲ | Sharlin an hour ago | parent | next [-] |
| I'm definitely from the generation of texters and there was never any censorship going on with SMSs... yours must be a cultural or regional thing. |
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| ▲ | collabs an hour ago | parent [-] | | Maybe you didn't have T9 enabled but I consider it censorship when I type bitch and it gives me chubi. Even now I wonder if I am allowed to type bitch here... I guess we will find out. | | |
| ▲ | Sharlin an hour ago | parent [-] | | But typing "b*tch" with T9 is just as difficult (if not more) as typing "bitch". Anyway, I guess I never had a need to swear much over SMS. On IRC, on the other hand... |
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| ▲ | mixermachine 35 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Am I, with around 30, in this generation?
Putting * in words seems like self censorship to me.
Still, might have a cultural component. German here. |
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| ▲ | nairboon an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Is that a cultural/national thing instead of an age thing? I've never had texts censored by texting providers, they're not supposed to read texts in the first place (at least around here). |
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| ▲ | josephg 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Sounds like a generational thing. I grew up texting. But in the 90s any profanity filters could just be turned off in settings. |
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| ▲ | 10729287 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | People are getting used to censor themselves in order not to be reported, banned, or «hurt » other sensibilities. The words « rape » couldn’t be written in instagram for example, what a great way to deal with such a serious issue. Mainly an American thing spreading away from young people if you ask me. Sorry America, just being honest here. | | |
| ▲ | sampullman 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | America is partly guilty, but TikTok censorship is a big part of the younger generation's tendency toward self censorship. | | |
| ▲ | bragh 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | As much as I personally dislike TikTok, I don't think it is fair to it: cultural willingness for more sensor sheep on Internet started years before TikTok's popularity in the west. | | |
| ▲ | sampullman 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | It's not the sole cause, but I believe it's the main driver behind a bunch of specific substitutions that are mainstream now or nearly so. For example, dih, ahh, and unalive. They may not have been invented on tiktok, but that's where they incubated. |
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| ▲ | well_ackshually 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | There's no such censorship on TikTok, it's entirely groupthink based on people saying "when I use that word my video is seen less so therefore it's being censored". Youtube is a lot more guilty of it though, as well as demonetizing. | | |
| ▲ | collabs an hour ago | parent [-] | | well_ackshually, tik tok has a well known, long, and rich history of suppressing certain search keywords. |
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| ▲ | mixermachine 30 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | After reading through the threat here it seems more like a cultural thing.
The US has quite a lot of filters for profanity.
I remember from my youth that in 2009 Eminem was a guest in a Germany TV show and very happy to swear as much as possible without being censored.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/2OC-yKZ5Yag | |
| ▲ | nairboon an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | You had profanity filters for SMS? |
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| ▲ | saberience 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I’ve been texting since it was first a thing (sms on Nokia phones) and no one I knows does this. We just say shit, fuck, and crap. |
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| ▲ | lofaszvanitt an hour ago | parent | prev [-] |
| stop feeding nonsense to the masses |
