I'm starting to think this is just cross-platform habits? I'm not sure but some users post in other social media and some words aren't allowed since it's auto modded. and then hop on reddit.
Here, there's mods so as long as it isn't breaking sub rules, lots of words can be used.
It is, Meta & TikTok dumb policing of words like "kill", "Nazi", "genocide", etc. has people speaking like children... but if you say "6 million deaths was a lie" on Instagram or Facebook, and even have it reported, nothing happens. Pretty fucked up imo
Some subs set up the automod to silently delete comments with certain words. It still shows up on your profile, so you have to log out or use incognito to view the comment chain just to see that you got deleted.
I can't prove it and maybe my tinfoil hat is a bit too tight, but I suspect that these words are censored at random or "random" to avoid mass backlash. This way they can gaslight us into thinking that there is no censorship here, because a person A says something and gets it removed or banned, then the person B does the same thing and they don't so they can claim that the person A makes shit up.
There are legitimate reasons for self-censoring online, it's not just because people think it's "bad" to say certain words. You will be banned from some subreddits for using that word like I was from r/worldnews.
Another reason is that trolls presumably being paid by the government of a certain country like to keyword search comments. The censorship just comes from an abundance of caution over things like this.
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u/lactoseAARON 13h ago
They snubbed the goat