On site censorship and what can be done about it?

After the debacle on a recent thread, when one of my posts got censored, or rather a word did, I was wondering if anyone has any suggestions that we could collectively put forward to site management to try and resolve this very annoying problem satisfactorily?

To me it seems ridiculous that so many words are taken out of context and censored, we have problems taking about ornithology, animals, poetry and I dread to think what would occur if we were talking about food and a certain F word was used when talking about a dish made of meat and wrapped in caul fat and baked. Surely an algorythum can be made to sort out some context rather than a blanket ban?

Also this is a British site and yet it seems that many of the words deemed offensive are mainly used in America, is this fair? I know nobody want to cause needless offence, but I actually feel discriminated against, my native language is being taken over and certain words and phrases taken out of context and banned often by what seems to be a foreign influenced power. here are certain words that may have been common, but were never anything but offensive and discriminatory, but surely not in the catagories that I've mentioned above?

I think context is all in this as in many things, but this in particular, how long before we're censored from talking about other things like our bodies and certain parts of them, I know we're rightly not allowed to give medical advice, but we might still want to talk from personal experience and give advice to a parent on how to broach subjects like puberty with an ASC child. To me this sort of thing is really important and I'd hate to think of people struggling and not only not being able to talk about it, but maybe not being allowed a language with which to discuss it.

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  • Hi Cat woman, I really don't know how this could be resolved.

    I think that an AI on this forum is programmed with a list of words that may be deemed offensive, and if it sees one of those words it flags it up for moderation? Perhaps a forum mod or a community member who knows more about these systems could advise if this would be correct?

    It seems to me that if a word is used in a post which COULD be used in an offensive way, or the word is just deemed to be "rude" it is redacted. I think this is because autistic people can be very literal and not always understand double meanings or humour, and because anyone of any age can read our posts. (even though you have to be over 18 to be a community member)

    I agree that it's very difficult for those of us who are adults with full mental capacity and a sense of humour who would like to discuss many different topics and share jokes we don't believe are offensive with other adult members, but I don't think we'd be allowed to do that without censorship unless the community forum was made only accessible to over 18s (with a warning for carers of adults with a lower mental capacity)

    I'm terms of advice regarding things like puberty, menstruation, physical intimacy or menopause I believe that it's ok to use the correct medical terms for body parts.

    Perhaps we need more clarification from the moderators about what is and is not ok before we formulate ideas as to how we could stop censorship of posts?

  • And this is why I've been very much against the online safty act. It tends to make website owners feel they have to turn their websites into walled gardens where everything is micro managed.

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