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@RC@elekk.xyz that's also pretty ableist because if you hear it you need to see it too otherwise it's not completely identical

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@tauon @RC

Right, that's what I was gonna say; I'm flabberghasted whenever the idea of censoring captions even comes up as remotely a good one.

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@amin @tauon @RC

exactly— if you're not censoring the audio, why would you censor the captions? aren't they supposed to be exactly what the audio says???

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@tauon @RC This has been my position on this absolute policy failure. YouTube does it, too!

It's got this infantilizing tone of "oh, don't you worry yourself about what nasty things they *actually*, you wouldn't want to read those bad words, anyway."

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@RC

In a way it's arguably worse that they're servicing the strange needs of homophobic prudes and in so doing ignoring principles they likely understand perfectly well, for commercial purposes.

A new twist on enshittification?

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@RC@elekk.xyz the fact it auto censors AT ALL feels ableist imo, like patronising people who rely on captions

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