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
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.
This is what we tried to warn people about when the campaigns to pressure YT to censor people started.
Censorship never stops with the thing you personally want.
Okay, but when they censor words on Metalocalypse they use guitar rifts and I enjoy that over the actual profanity.
Honestly, some writers have gotten pretty creative with censorship. Firefly’s use of “in universe” curses are a good example.
Plus such classics as the tv edit of The Big Lebowski’s “Find me in the alps!”
I would prefer no censorship, but that’s no reason to disregard the fine work of creators trying to make the best of a bad situation.
Firefly’s use of “in universe” curses are a good example.
Also, The Good Place
Absolutely!
What’s great about The Good Place’s “censorship” (imho), is the joke would work even if they weren’t actually being censored. I get that it’s a unique advantage of the shows premise, so it’s more of an exception than the rule, but damn if it isn’t well played!
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.
MAGA
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.
People complained to advertisers. I remember 2005.
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.
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.
I so identify with this lady.
The beep they use on TV is ear-piercing.
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
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.
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.
👏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.
I actually like censored swear words in written text. At least when they are censored enough that you can’t tell what the swearword is, but you know the intention behind it.
Deliberate misspellings are obnoxious though
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.
What the frak is up with censorship these days.
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.
they are called grawlixes in comics. i wonder if the artist used asterisks to avoid this conversation or because they didn’t know.
I don’t think they’re referring to grawlixes at all, but rather the censorship when people are texting or speaking.
TIL what those are called.
