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@sh.itjust.works
    11·
    1 year ago

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

    • axum@kbin.social
      2·
      1 year 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”