• TotallyHuman@lemmy.ca
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    8 months ago

    It’s actually counterproductive! People who want to screen stuff about abuse from their internet experience can set up filters. Those filters are broken when you censor the relevant words!

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      8 months ago

      Yeah but does that matter if using the asterisk helps those not the victim of abuse feel better about their day? They are the real victims 🤣

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        7 months ago

        If the word triggers some symptom, then why would that same word, “hidden” by a trick that wouldn’t faze a six-year-old, be any less harmful?