You know what really fucking Annoys Me about internet censorship is stuff like swear words being heavily censored because that's entirely an American cultural hangup being forced on the rest of us. I don't know a single country where swearing is as taboo as it is in America. In fact most languages have swear words that would have the same effect on an American as giving a Victorian chimney sweep a pepsi max cherry.
Demonitizing Irish people's videos for having swear words in them is a kind of hate crime and psychological torture I think.
#youtube's moral valence is a sight to behold#it's entirely okay to make your living being a cult leader or selling poison to rubes but don't say the forbidden word(via@some-triangles) Yeah |:T
The annoying thing is it isn't even a USIAN thing; it's very specifically a Conservative Christian Thing.
Like: most USians pepper their speech with ~profanity~ about as regularly as everyone else(as you can see in US produced movies), but we have this one subset of USians who've built numerous institutions(and I mean this literally: the call-center may not have been invented by conservative christians to harass the FCC into tightening TV censorship during the 80s, but they heavily innovated it) exclusively around harassing EVERY Commission, Department, or Corporation with censorship-privileges 24-hours a day about enforcing THEIR preferences on everyone else, and of course Google's been caving to them from the jump |:T