Why are swear words deleted on social media, television and parenting? (Possibly NSFW)

Lobbying by the sensitive religious people who don’t understand that people use off-color terms. It’s part of the puritan brainwashing and Pollyanna syndrome.

Reminds me of George Carlin’s 7 Dirty Words

They’ve all migrated to the streaming services and are camping out there. You can’t turn on a streaming series without hearing all the f__ks and s____ts you want.

Its a federal law from 1964 to protect children from obscene language and indecent behavior, and protects advertisers from blowback. Obscenity is not protected under Freedom of Speech.
Youtube and some other platforms also enforce the federal law.

except that there is not, and never has been, a real definition of obscenity

@Forever_Free….I remember listening to George Carlin’s 7 words in the 60s. I was in 3rd grade. A friend’s parents had it on vinyl. We played it more than once, and her Mom MUST have heard it and never said a word!
Aside from being funny it was kind of profound.
“It’s just words man!”
“You can fu$$ me but please don’t fu$$ my daughter!”

I remember when the ratings came out. When I was 13 I went to our theater and watched The Godfather all by myself. The lady who owned the theater didn’t bat an eye when she handed me my ticket although the movie was R rated.
Parts of it were kinda traumatic!

Organized religion, is THE problem…..

They aren’t.

Who isn’t what @snip?

Many people find swear words to be offensive and not needed to for making a point in a discussion and therefore can be banned without violating freedom of speech.

I don’t see swear words deleted on social media.

Algorithms swat us for a lot of words @jca2, not just swear words. Words like “kill” and “hit” etc.
You know it’s an algorithm because it denies the post instantly. It also doesn’t see the words in context.

I know that those words flag the Facebook admins but not words like fuck and shit.

Oh yes they do. That’s why so many word look like “fu(k” and “shi+”
We primates are smarter than any algorithm. ;)

And they don’t flag the admins. The rejection is too fast and automatic for that.

@Dutchess_III posters voluntarily put symbols in their swear words, so as not to offend, but all the time, every day (right now, in fact), I see words like fuck and shit in group posts and friends’ posts.

I see it in memes. That’s all.

I see it all over FB.

I don’t! Must be the kind of folks I have populated my account with. IDK.

@Dutchess_III It’s not just invididuals, I see it in groups too.

Some groups are part of my feed.
Just now Jonsblond commented on a picture of a Tessela that someone posted.
She said “No one wants to see these cars.”
I said “Right? They’re ugly. Like Musk.”
BOOM! Indtantly denied because it wasn’t “uplifting.”
So I edited. Took it all out except for “Right?”
Then it was accepted.
However if I had said “u&ly” it wouldn’t have caught it.

Some of us jellies, actually curse pretty fucking frequently…