You can fucking curse, people on TikTok and Facebook, Xitter, Reddit can curse… The idea that profanity (etym. Latin, “Outside the Temple”) is unsociable or wrong is inherently, in the Western hemisphere, a Victorian English invention from the middle-class, as an attempt to distance themselves from the working class. History lesson aside, the only reason cursing aka emotionally descriptive terminology is avoided, as with critical terms such as “sexual assault”, “rape”, “paedophile”, “Covid” apparently, is because many media platforms have automated algorithmic shadowbanning scanning systems to suppress the free speech of content creators. What we do here, and on all the networking sites - discuss things - is not content. We Are Free Here. The only time these penalties come into play is when someone gets paid by a corporate-owned platform to create, and doesn’t want to jeopardise the money they receive in return in order to live a bit more comfortably. Put simply:

• Do you get paid a sizeable, but not comfortable, amount of money by any social platform to create media content, and in turn, traffic for them?
• Does your life or lifestyle depend on the amount of views you get on a centralised, corporate, regularly audited social media platform for a reason other than financial?

If the answer to either of these questions is “No” then you can cunting swear, on any platform, not just the libre (etym. Latin, “free” and “freedom” and “unrestricted”, see also ‘liberal’ and ‘liberation’) ones. Because Lemmy is open-source, non-profit, and ad-free, there are no corporate sponsors to appease.

Fuck censors. And like I mentioned above, victims of rape or other forms of traumatic abuse are being taught that they can’t openly talk about it, despite zero laws against it, and this severely damages the already dire issue that is victims that do talk get blamed, harassed and demonized, while convictions are very, very low. Talk about that with the fucking states that impose speech monitoring for child safety. If they wanted that they’d enact some actual fucking consequences for child rapists and sex traffickers.

I’m emotionally charged by this topic and vehemently defend a person’s right to be free of oppression. You can tell because I’m allowed to express it.

If you’re not sure, see the individual instance or community guidelines. For reference, neither mastodon.world, lemmy.world (both owned by the same foundation) nor c/reddit@lemmy.world have rules against certain forms of speech.