The absolute state of chess dot com censorship

Yeah those youngsters are out of their minds, you might say h@mo and they will think you are racist nowdays, just brainless stuff! XD

I am not trying to save the world. The purpose of this thread was to highlight the absurdity of a system of censorship that censors perfectly acceptable English words, phrases and idioms. Its infantile and entirely ludicrous for adult sentient beings to have to evade a system that censors perfectly good words.

Ok I understand that the main forums have to be ultra sanitised in case some advertiser or parent baulks at the prospect of some boorish cad who decides to engage in lewd and dastardly conduct by spewing forth an expletive laden tirade. We get that.

However in the more private clubs we discuss things of a more controversial nature and the censorship as it stands is debilitating. Here is just one final example. We can't say r*pe and as a consequence cannot link to any of the admirable charities or statistics produced when engaged in debate. For example, all the following are contraband.

Perfectly acceptable wholesome sites are being censored and excluded, in effect punishing the conscientious because of the behaviour of miscreants. Why you think that advantageous I cannot say.

Indeed one dare not light a match lest someone calls the fire brigade to have it extinguished.

If u think this sites censorship is bad then try to comment about ANYTHING on msn.com that doesn't bow down & worship whatever lie they're pushing in any article. If they had an article about how our planet is really flat & u tried to point out ANY evidence to the contrary they'd give u a message about how it's against the terms of service & they're not allowing it. This site has a few similarities.

Reddit is the most toxic place on the net imo, they may shadowban you for no reason unable to do anything, but i think that's they way they are trying to push anything on the net

This site is the extent of my social media existence.

99% of the time it is used as a racial slur, and in the case of the 1% there are many other ways you could get the point across. There's no good way to block one without blocking the other so blocking both is just the best way

Stop speaking b@ll@cks already, we had enough of this bad word crap, all of this is just pretext to censor freedom of speech,

If you are so sensitive about the way people speak on the net then get out and touch some grass because in no way is reasonable to censor any word in the human vocabulary that resembles a slur word, do you get that?!

You are censoring perfectly acceptable language and preventing people from using idiomatic phrases that have been used throughout the literally world for hundreds of years with NO ISSUE for fear that some scoundrel might utter a racial slur! Oh noooooo!

Whats next, a social credit system where you get credits for visiting your granny?

Yep. The message from censors is really "bow down & grovel to your slave masters..... but ONLY some of you".

Where is the line drawn? Shall we have to stop saying “Monkey” or “Ape” in perfectly fine contexts because racists use them as ethnic slurs?

Any word could be an ethnic slur if racists used it as such! Shall we have to destroy most of the English language to the point where barely any thoughts can be expressed in a wild attempt to prevent discrimination?!

Shall we all speak in “Happy speak” where no negativity exists within the vocabulary just in case?!

This really happened: a few years ago on live TV a tennis commentator was commenting while Venus Williams was playing & said something like "she's using guerrilla warfare tactics". Something like that. He was fired immediately. Period. Even though it wasn't a description of gorilla the ape but guerrilla warfare strategy, a legitimate strategy of battle. It just shows how ignorant the censors are. Often (most of the time), it's the censors themselves that are projecting, they're the ones harboring the thoughts and assumptions that they're accusing others of.

Their is no such thing as a "bad" word

It comes down to context and how someone's uses a word.

Exactly, at some point in the future we may have the word banana becoming a slur word which for anybody may insinuate something bad or whatever, are we going to censor that also?!

I think in the end maybe it is for the better, people should throw their phones to the trash and get out

Sorry,....I was gonna post something but a moderator put his hand on my shoulder.

Nah Batman not so cool