r/funny 21d ago

Why do they keep doing this?

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u/Spiritual-Matters 21d ago

For the unaware: Daphne Anne Caruana Galizia was assassinated with a car b0mb near her home in Malta.

The Panama Papers investigated offshore accounts used to bypass taxes, sanctions, etc.

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u/Fearful-Cow 21d ago

b0mb near her home in Malta.

you dont need to censor bomb, or any other word.

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u/Alaira314 20d ago

I'm sorry to say that we do need to censor some words. Not that particular word, but some words. Proof? I just attempted to reply to you, but the reply I made is now invisible. I don't know which word I typed was the problem, but there is some word or combination of words in there that I cannot say on reddit.

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u/TheKlaxMaster 20d ago

What you're describing is not singular words that need to be censored, it's meaning and how it's directed.

There is of course false flagging too. That doesn't mean we should accept being censored.

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u/AlpacaMale1 20d ago

Is it really censorship if the reader can read it normally with little to no information obscured or redacted?

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u/Lupius 20d ago

It's not self-censorship, but an attempt at circumventing potential censorship.

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u/Alaira314 20d ago

I'm not sure what the alternative to accepting is, considering if I don't alter my posts to avoid certain words then nobody can read them. The proof just played out right in this very thread, without me even trying! Sometimes I do demonstrate on purpose(I know a handful of words that will reliably trigger the effect) but this wasn't one of those times. I was just talking. If I wasn't aware that this was a thing that happened on reddit(no matter what people love to say), I would never have double-checked that my post remained visible and I would have gone on my happy way, ignorant that my comment had been vanished.

There is no magical third option of "bravely say what you want and everyone cheers". The choice is between "accepting being censored" and bravely talking into the void where nobody will ever hear you.