On some (techhical) bullettin boards you couldn't talk about Matsushita CD/DVD drives, but luckily enough Panasonic was fine. Still, all in all, automatically

On some (techhical) bullettin boards you couldn't talk about Matsushita CD/DVD drives, but luckily enough Panasonic was fine. Still, all in all, automatically replacing a (supposed) swear/offensive word with some asterisks makes less overall damage than banning someone's account (temporarily or for longer periods or forever). It is simply intimidating when you have to think twice or thrice before saying something for fear of being automatically banned (without possibility of explanation/recourse).