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Profanity is objective and can be detected mostly in an automated way. Which means it may not be THAT useful to remove it, but it's EASY to remove it, and the d
by slver 5y ago
Profanity is objective and can be detected mostly in an automated way. Which means it may not be THAT useful to remove it, but it's EASY to remove it, and the decisions are not CONTROVERSIAL.
While concepts like "hate speech" very easily turn into arbitrary censorship. So it's easy to say people should focus on hate speech more, but there be dragons.
- happytoexplain 5y agoI agree, but I would qualify that, while removing profanity is easy to do, it is not easy to automate, and more importantly, it's not uncontroversial - just less controversial than removing hate speech. There are plenty of people who would be very upset about their comments being removed just because they contained profanity.