Well, I understand it's probably much easier to code that sort of thing for a client that already has to interpret data from a server on an individual basis than it is for a website. And given everything else the Titan Network is doing for us, I'm not gonna complain that I can't curse. But I do think the discussion of profanity and censorship is an interesting one, and a good one to have as a community, especially a community that has to live within certain rules imposed upon us.
For example, I know that my brother and my little sister swear, but I can count on my hands the number of times I've heard them swear. That has to do with the fact that our parents disapprove of "strong language" and that our shared social context is informed almost entirely by our parents and little to do with our own personal preferences of language. We each have a "family mode" of discussion in which the profanity filter is checked, and we each enter "family mode" when we talk to each other, even if our parents aren't around. I do a similar sort of thing when I'm playing video games and not on a selective channel - I don't completely censor myself, but I certainly turn it down. In a way that's actually me selling out my ideals because I don't believe I should have to guard the way I talk, but I do it anyway because of certain social programming. Does that make me a bad person? I sure as hell don't know, but it's definitely part of what makes me ashamed of myself.
Edit: Yes, this conversation took a sharp turn into Serious Lane. Feel free to pull it back to Silly Parkway if you'd like.
