Giraffes aren't outright banned on Weibo, but hashtags like #TheGiraffeIncident were blocked when the animals became the center of a wave of discontent.
Now I need to know what it is. My first thought would be Spotted Dick, but then Dick is a name. Maybe Pork removeds? That one I can understand being removed.
And Norwegian. It’s hard to converse with countrymen on a platform running word filters for another language.
Not just playing the instrument “removed”, but discussing school classes with friends and family as we would say “hvilke fag tar du i år?” to ask which classes you take this year. Luckily Lemmyworld isn’t that aggressive, but many online chat services and emails clients have started screaming at “fag”.
Encountering such filters on a school computer that blocked my emails was particularly frustrating.
Try telling that to the Lemmy.World admins who auto-censor removed. :/
It’s a fucking British food you bastards! I will die on this hill! Free the removed!
Now I need to know what it is. My first thought would be Spotted Dick, but then Dick is a name. Maybe Pork removeds? That one I can understand being removed.
I think I know what it is. You can buy them in the supermarket. It’s slang for a gay man, rhymes with maggot.
Ah yes, I understand why they remove it as I don’t think it’s often used in its other contexts. I do prefer to use it to describe a bundle of sticks
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Ah so similiar to the german translation of the instrument bassoon?
And Norwegian. It’s hard to converse with countrymen on a platform running word filters for another language.
Not just playing the instrument “removed”, but discussing school classes with friends and family as we would say “hvilke fag tar du i år?” to ask which classes you take this year. Luckily Lemmyworld isn’t that aggressive, but many online chat services and emails clients have started screaming at “fag”.
Encountering such filters on a school computer that blocked my emails was particularly frustrating.
Someone has a word that shares the f-slur for a benign food product? Holy shit that’s unfortunate.
My dad used to talk about them. He’d call it faggots and peas.
It’s as if the Scunthorpe problem has been lost to history. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem
Or https://www.expressandstar.com/news/2013/11/01/*removed*s-and-peas-fall-foul-of-facebook-censors/
Can Wikipedia bypass the censor?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/*removed*_(food)
Edit: nope
pork and offal or… that’s all I can think of that’d get removed