which one feels more vulgar or offensive?
“fuck”
“****”
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.
I love it when the tough guy alpha male MAGAts on various social media are so bad they self-censor words they know will get them banned.
Conversely, I hate how so many types of social media are self-censoring words because they’re trying not to lose views according to an algorithm. It demeans the terrible severity when someone talks about rape by calling it ‘grape’, for instance. ‘Unalived’ is the most fucking ridiculous one.
Now f**k off, or I’ll unpleasant you!
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.
Another thing I hate is when the subtitles are censored but not the audio. That’s actually pretty ableist if you think about it. They should match. If the audio is censored, censor the subtitles. If the audio is uncensored, don’t censor the subtitles. It infantilizes people who are hard of hearing as if they can’t handle a swear.
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 signals were not coupled, at least not in that way, and at least in NTSC. None of the bandwidth of the audio signal overlaps with the video signal. In fact, the audio signal was just a standard FM signal that you could tune into with a radio.
Maybe in those days they just played a loud noise that didn’t actually replace the sound and that was cheaper than setting something up with bandpass filters to mute it for a moment.
In fact, the audio signal was just a standard FM signal that you could tune into with a radio.
wow, so today when we have podcasts that are also available as long youtube videos, we are in fact continuing a (single century) long tradition
I suppose you could view it like that lol. I’m not sure if modern video formats found a way to compress audio and video together. My guess is not because they’re so inherently different. Films (like ya know, movies on film) had the audio on the film besides the frames.
Youtube auto censors the subtitles if you don’t tick off a setting.
On the viewer’s side or creator’s side?
Creator side
Thanks. When I see it in the future I will leave a comment about it.
The internet being censored is one of the most incredibly ridiculous things to happen in our lifetime. Nothing missed the point harder than corporate internet. Even that’s an oxymoron.
I always find it funny how in other countries, there isn’t so much a stigma for kids being exposed to cursing and swearing in something like cartoons. I have always hated how music even has to be censored to appease the—let’s face it—minority (probably religious) who happen to like everything else about the song except for language they deem unworthy. The artist expresses themselves with honesty. If you can’t handle that, tough shit. Listen to a podcast or Kidsbop. FFS
Honestly, same.
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
Well, yeah. Censoring isn’t everywhere because people complained, it’s because advertisers complained.
The irony is movies shown on TV with people being murdered and blood flying everywhere and bleeping out the swearing.
How else am I supposed to say bri*ish?
Just say “the better English speakers”
“English (Traditional) speakers.”
Better? They can hardly pronounce their own language.
I know, I feel bad. One of the favorite things I used to say back in the frumpin’ day was “Dude, it’s the internet, you can cuss here”.
Then slowly over the years, site after site after site after site after site started implementing rules against profanity. Not even in a somewhat sane, reasonable, or consistent way either. Which made it all the worse.
And now, annoying as it is for me personally, I just bite my t0%#$#gue and move on.
Still find it incredibly ridiculous that you can get banned from a certain R-word site for using the R-word, but calling someone or referring to them as a “cocksucker” is apparently perfectly acceptable.
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.
I feel the same about trigger warnings where the warnings are more triggering than the content. The ridiculous ones have petered somewhat, but at its peak you’d see stuff like
TW: mental health, suicide, self harm, narcissistic abuse
Post: I feel sad today :( my mum is telling me to clean and she doesn’t get me
These memes with little strips of white over a word or letter are so cringe, it makes me feel awkwardness for others policing their own language… online
I always found it funny when I see a censored middle finger on TV in the US. It’s like they are drawing more attention to it by censoring it. And everyone knows what’s behind the pixelation. It’s so pointless.
The video “the count censored” is quite good.
I so identify with this lady.
It is annoying. You know what you wanted to write. We know what you wanted to write. The algorithm know what you wanted to write. And if you’re so inclined, your god/gods knows what you wanted to write.
If you write “f*ck this sh!t”, you’ve offended exactly the same number of people you would have with “fuck this shit”. Stop acting like a posing saint and just say what you’re saying anyway.
But think of the
childrenupper 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 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 it was the right more people…
👏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
bad word bad! no context! only hurt feelings! whos feelings? an imaginary person that might get offended! also they are underage.
With an audio track I feel like a well timed bleep can actually make a scene funnier. Doesn’t work as well if you’re trying to play it serious though.
When it comes to text censoring isn’t worth it IMO, at least the type where you blank out part of the word or use a derivative. Everyone can still tell what word you meant so if it was important enough to include then use the actual word. If it wasn’t that important then you don’t need to write the word you’re worried about in the first place - there are other words that can be used for insults or emphasis.
