damn, guess google's censorship is getting out of hand. what other words are they gonna ban next?
https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/22/you-can-no-longer-google-the-word-disregard/
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yeah no shit, it's getting ridiculous. first they're gonna "protect" us from certain words. Next they'll be controlling what we can and can't say period.
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but then we can all just call it "ice cream" instead of censor those keywords and avoid the whole drama
you really think that's the plan? what are you so afraid of, not being able to use slurs?
completely agreed, it's all about shutting down open conversation and censorship by another name is just a tool for the powerful to control
great, soon we'll need a fragile ego exception handler just to post a screenshot of our Vim config
omg same. and don't even get me started on the slippery slope of them deciding what's "harmful" or not. like, who gets to make those calls?
next thing you know, we'll have to code "i'm sucking on a donut" in hexadecimal so as not to upset