I don't think anybody expects people to stop saying fuck.

Bryant

For some though, apparently not.

it isn't the appropriate site for you.

It's still status quo

Nice catch, Josh!

one poster in particular has gotten for cussing. It seems to depend on what the purpose of the cuss is. If it is to insult women, people of color, and LGBT Americans, then it is proclaimed to be free speech. If it is in response to such a post, that it is uncivil. Funny how that works.

I myself try to avoid cussing (not always successfully) because I know that freedom of speech you benefit from does not extend to me.
PWF, as always.

Everyone else still sees what the poster is saying - only now the fool who hit the hide button can't defend themselves nor the position they wanted to advocate

and people alert on posts. In fact, the same people talking about freedom of speech take great exception to certain kinds of speech, so much so that they alert on it and seek to have certain posters driven from the site. My point is there is a big fat double standard. The freedom people claim is to insult those they see as inferior to themselves, but they allow no such freedom for the subaltern to speak without censure.

and merely relegate DU into insignificance

Don't get me wrong - some post are certainly over the top and need to be hidden. But if some one merely doesn't agree with a particular stance a person has on DU that isn't a reason to use the alert button or attempt to gawd them into writing some thing worth alerting

This is a philosophical discussion only. I'm not trying to offend you. If someone uses the expletive "fuck" in phrases such as "this is f'd up" or "that f'ing sucks", it won't get hidden. It's not attacking anyone and while vulgar, is still civil. On the other hand, the combination of that word with "You", focuses the verb at another person such that it is a clear attack and will nearly always be seen as uncivil. Whenever I see a hide that focused on the f word, it's always the latter usage.

Simply not true.

I've seen them get locked for misogynistic or homophobic words, but not for just plain old vulgar profanity. Now, to qualify this, DU is a 24 hour 7 days a week website, and I'm only on for small bits at any one time. So it's quite possible (and likely) that there are exceptions, but in my experience I have not observed it.

Have you ever seen posts hidden for this ?

Probably not, but that doesn't mean it hasn't happened.

It was in response to a post that advocated harm to another person in violation of the TOS. It was a good hide.

I saw another in response to someone comparing/calling someone a murderer. That also seemed an appropriate hide.

On a thread about George Carlins famous obscenity rant.

I am sorry if I offended you with my f-bomb. Given the thread was already on fire, I just dove in.

Again, very sorry if that offended you.

So very telling it is now being used on DU by a small group of detractors

The complaint is against misogynist, homophobic, or racist speech - whether it involves cussing or not. I've never seen anyone complain about cussing.

It's getting old, too.

But throwing around vulgar language because one thinks it makes one 'out there' or sees it as equal to 'free speech' is moronic.

Vulgarity bothers me not at all but its use solely to offend and then laugh at those who are offended shows no class and no style.
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Also, sphincter.

institute a no foul language policy, that would have nothing to do with freedom of speech.

yes INDEED

has this been alerted yet by the ...

the one with the uke is Cathy Guthrie, the one with the guitar is Amy Nelson. And yes, they are Arlo's and Willie's daughters.

toodle-loo

If you can't take the heat for what you say maybe this isn't an appropriate site for YOU.

Think of the grown children! Who will protect them from DU?

this is Skinner's house and what he tolerates are doesn't tolerate in it, has nothing to do with your (or my) freedom of speech. If you don't get THAT, then perhaps this isn't the appropriate site for you.

Please write on the difference between socially liberal support of speech and selfishly libertine shamelessness so that we all can free ourselves from horrible oppression.

I miss where it started. Any link to the post hidden for simply cussing? Doesn't the fact your op is still standing proof that your whole premise here is wrong?

Tell me again why YOU should be posting here and not on a RW website, where such ugliness reigns.

With that attitude, I rather imagine you WON'T be posting here much longer.

Congress isn't involved in what can be said here so it is not a Free Speech issue. I wouldn't have expected a DUer to make that mistake.

Swearing isn't what this is about. People swear here all the time. I'm better at it than most people, and have no boundaries if I lose my temper. I've been on DU for almost 10 years and with my language I'd have been kicked off ANY reasonably moderated site. So I choose not no. I also choose not to use bigoted language, and I made that choice years ago, because for me, it's wrong. It might be different for others. As far as I'm concerned, people can say what they want and I can object to it as much as I want.

You know what this is? A bunch of hysterical bullshit.

Let's toss in a new word-- courtesy. It's got a couple things going for it. It starts with a 'C' for one.

If they jury doesn't agree. It's all in jury hands now. If you get a hide for it, there's nothing that can be done about it.