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Youtube always does a [_____] when a word like 'fuck' or 'shit' is said.

I've lost count of how many times I was watching a film on tv as a kid, or even a film on prime where they will write 'shoot' instead of 'shit' or 'screw' instead of 'fuck.'

This still happens, by the way. Very regularly. The last film I watched on Prime, the subs said 'darn,' instead of 'damn' and 'oh no' instead of 'shit.'

Oh, the worst one I saw- instead of 'get fucked,' it was 'get stuffed.'

please stop treating me like a child.

in other words, an ASL interpreter is there to present the scene exactly as it happens to a deaf audience. therefore if the hearing audience can hear the fart, the deaf audience should too.

(she also brought up the inherent ableism in farting in front of a deaf person assuming you'd be able to get away with it.)

so yeah i wholeheartedly agree. subtitles should not be censored. Image IDs for screen readers should not be censored. There's probably a whole host of scenarios I can't think of where censorship is an option, and one should choose censorship in none of them.

They are giving no indication in the caption whatsoever that words they don’t like are being said. It skips over them. There’s no space, there’s no indication that they’ve been censoring a word. It just carries on from the previous “acceptable” word to the next “acceptable” word. No space to tell you that they have just censored something.

If you are for example profoundly deaf, and you happen to blink at that moment, or the camera is off the person who’s just said the offending word, you don’t know the word was said. There’s no indication that they have censored something. I’m quite certain this is extremely intentional.

I think this is dodgy as hell.

But as I posted yesterday, the UK is trying to force YouTube to prioritise content that is approved by the UK government because people have stopped watching BBC. Personally, I find this incredibly Orwellian and dangerous. It’s bad enough that they censor disabled people. It’s bad enough that they treat us like we are children who cannot handle these big scary words like fuck.

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If you can only contribute financially:

International Red Cross: Venezuela Earthquake Appeal

Sun Risas Foundation: On-the-ground rescue fund

If you speak Spanish, you can remotely volunteer as a language interpreter for non-spanish speaking-rescuers

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