• zewm@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    I don’t know if you’re joking or not so I will answer genuinely. It is used to circumvent censorship. Some platforms are strict with words. By obfuscating potentially black listed words it helps get the content past the filters.

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      5 hours ago

      I’d argue it also thereby normalizes, memetically spreads, and even to a degree enforces the very thing it means to circumvent. Damn this horseshit, forever. Not attacking you, just the self-censoring nonsense.

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        3 hours ago

        I mean you could just not use the platforms you don’t agree with. It’s all there in the EULA everyone skips. 🤷‍♂️