Is it true that censoring potential triggers with asterisks, numbers and letters makes it more harder for people with reading disabilities to read and people will fill in the blanks and know what the word is anyways?
Yes, its absolutely true.
It also makes it harder or impossible for people who are triggered by those things to create strong filters online to keep from seeing them.
If you’re talking about rape, and you write it r*pe, then someone who has the word “rape” filtered will now SEE THAT POST that they were trying to avoid.
Censoring words that way is explicitly useful for GETTING AROUND FILTERS on sites that automatically filter those words. Censoring them is to avoid machine censorship so that the topics can be discussed, it is not to help people who don’t want to see them.
On a site like tumblr that doesn’t autocensor topics like that the best thing you can do is write them out fully so that people who are trying to filter them out can do so.
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