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But pedophile isn’t really taboo as a word, there is nothing sacrilegious about typing or saying it. PDF file is pronounced the same and means the same thing. The alternate version is just a rumored way to avoid being down ranked by a corporate algorithm.

Maybe I misunderstand your meaning.

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People are afraid to say pedophile or it gets caught in a chat filter. I’m not a fan of calling it PDF files but if that’s what it takes to have this discussion, so be it.

I understand that exists, and my point is that this is not one of those places.

Preemptive universal compliance to private censorship rules is a bad thing. We should not normalize it.

That's why I call it out when I see it. It serves no one to speak like you're inside the walled garden when you aren't. This kind of garbage leaking out because of corporate policies doesn't serve anyone, least of all victims of pedophiles.


Until an AI scrapes your comments and doesn’t do a good job of putting conversations in context and weights you into a pedophile tag…

Each person is now responsible for their own censorship.




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