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		KaiserPro 6 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Social Cooling (2017) No, its to avoid auto downranking, by which ever filter the platform uses. You can use all those words, but then, the theory goes, STT and OCR interprets the "bad" words and limits the reach of them.

trinix912 6 months ago [–]

But isn't this part of the problem? People just self-censor to not be censored.

xboxnolifes 6 months ago | [–]

If only content that follows the censor rules survives the censor, is that "self" censorship? That just sounds like plain ol' censorship.

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