Board Thread:Wiki Improvement/@comment-4748628-20150902020332/@comment-29956848-20150902211325

I'm anti-censorship. I never understood it as a child, I never understood it as an adolescent, and I don't understand it now.

If you censor a swear word, you're putting the actual word into another person's head because they already know what you're saying. For example, when people say "the N-word". Everyone knows what the "the N-word" is, why bother censoring it? Is it to be politically correct? Come on guys, we're a Sonic fan site. Political correctness shouldn't be a requirement.

I'm not saying that words like "the N-word" should be allowed. Barring slurs and such, casual swear words like "the F-word" and, I dunno, "the M-word" should be fine. Swears are one thing, racial slurs are another. They're a league ahead and they're insults. Swear words are not necessarily that; I've always looked at them as a form of expression, despite whatever adult saying "oh people use swear words because they're unintelligent and they don't know what else to say".

I'd be disappointed if swearing has to be censored permanently because then we'd all sound like idiots trying to find substitute words. That's my piece on it, hope ya'll can see where I'm coming from on it.

PowerMouse (talk) 21:13, September 2, 2015 (UTC)