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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    That’s what I would think but how do you tiptoe in context of really intense issues like suicide, rape, abuse? If you reference it I feel like it would trigger any bad emotions just on the topic not the specific word

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      I thought it was just about not triggering a word filter

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        I think that’s what is happening. It’s to prevent the algorithms from hiding away their post due to controversial topics.

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          There’s no way any modern word filter doesn’t have a common symbol substitution list

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      If tiktok has banned those words, then maybe tiktok is not the right forum for the topic?

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        Correct and I didn’t even realize after reading their reply lol.