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		zingmars on March 20, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ex-Facebook insider says covert data harvesting wa... Self-censoring is in no way 'a higher level of discourse'. Not using curse words is one thing, but in some situation (esp. like this where a direct quote is used) there is no real reason to censor swear words in an adult conversation.

loxs on March 20, 2018 | [–]

Exactly. It's not that you are not using the word if you put several asterisks instead of the actual letters.

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