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.

  • @can
    11•10 months ago

    Some people would rather not see that word. And importantly some algorithms don’t want people to see that word.

    • axum
      2•10 months ago

      Unless you are hiding the word entirely behind a spoiler tag every common substitution list would account for this and it doesn’t look visually different enough to just not think “rape”

      • FinalFallacy
        4•10 months ago

        I’ve been raped and it’s hard to have honest conversations now days because of this superficial escapism. It’s definitely not an easy subject to discuss but hearing people say shit like “They’ve been graped” or “r@ped” seems to cheapen the gravity of the word and the experience. It’s a word and topic that should make people uneasy and uncomfortable. On the same token people should be mature enough to see and hear these things or mature enough to leave, move on or skip it if they aren’t able to handle it.

        • Aesthesiaphilia
          1•10 months ago

          It’s a word and topic that should make people uneasy and uncomfortable.

          This is the root of why words get censored. Not because it’s triggering to those who have experienced real harm, but because it makes other people uncomfortable and it gives them a way to pretend like they care.

          Edit: and to have some level of power by policing others.

          • MxM111
            1•10 months ago

            We are censoring that might make somebody uncomfortable now? What about satanism, war, murder, hell, bleeding, communism … I am sure these words make some people uncomfortable. Should they be censored too? What a nonsense!

      • @can
        1•10 months ago

        I do agree that it’s not really effective in either case.

    • MxM111
      1•10 months ago

      But why? I mean there are bad things in our lives. War, for example, should we forbid using the word war as well? What is the logic here, I am genuinely confused by this.