Current Events > Honest question to Americans - what's with the censorship?

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I'm from the UK. Got all the respect for folks from the USA. I know there are things we don't do as well, but also do better, but that's for another topic.

Just wanted to ask, as I've seen a reddit post of mine nicked by some clickbait site on facebook - is there a law about what words you can and can't use? I understand that if I called someone a very rude word beginning with c, then it'd obviously be censored, but my sentence of "so I said what the hell, let's have a beer" was redacted to "so I said what the h---, let's have a b---" Er, whut?

I've also seen topics discussing death as being "unalived" - is this just slang from younger generations, or am I missing something here?

Full disclosure, I don't have an issue as such, but I'm just confused if I missed something. I'm not as present on social media as I was, but if anybody could help learn me, much appreciated.

Again, not a troll topic or anything, just genuinely curious if I'm too old to keep up with the socials.

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L&T

highly agressive tiktok/youtube/streaming ToS in regards to certain topics, leads to people using euphemisms for said topics or censoring writing about said topics, and then it spreads from there.

Vokrent posted...

highly agressive tiktok/youtube/streaming ToS in regards to certain topics, leads to people using euphemisms for said topics or censoring writing about said topics, and then it spreads from there.

Thanks mate, I had a feeling it came from newer socials (I don't have a tiktok/insta/discord/etc) but that makes sense.

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I LOVE your username.

Giving love to the secondary characters. And it primary used to have spaces lol

Damn_Underscore posted...

I LOVE your username.

Giving love to the secondary characters. And it primary used to have spaces lol

Thanks dude. I'm still qualified for The Space Bar even after all these years. I miss my spaces.

Hope you and the family are well pal.

Yeah, I often see some of the weirdest terms get censored. I think I even saw a video that censored the word "beer".

Solar_Crimson posted...

Yeah, I often see some of the weirdest terms get censored. I think I even saw a video that censored the word "beer".

That's what I had, the word "beer" censored. Why?!

One of my best mates is a lovely young woman, who happens to be a lesbian. I remember she was very pissed off about how "lesbian" became "l------" on some social site, and didn't let her post something akin to "my experiences as a 28 year old lesbian".

Seems a bit harsh and, frankly, a little backwards.