Giraffes appear to be on a path to joining the ranks of Winnie the Pooh and Peppa Pig on Beijing's internet watchlist

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Giraffes appear to be on a path to joining the ranks of Winnie the Pooh and Peppa Pig on Beijing's internet watchlist
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I think I know what it is. You can buy them in the supermarket. It’s slang for a gay man, rhymes with maggot.

Ah yes, I understand why they remove it as I don't think it's often used in its other contexts. I do prefer to use it to describe a bundle of sticks

Ah so similiar to the german translation of the instrument bassoon?

And Norwegian. It's hard to converse with countrymen on a platform running word filters for another language.

Not just playing the instrument "removed", but discussing school classes with friends and family as we would say "hvilke fag tar du i år?" to ask which classes you take this year. Luckily Lemmyworld isn't that aggressive, but many online chat services and emails clients have started screaming at "fag".

Encountering such filters on a school computer that blocked my emails was particularly frustrating.

Someone has a word that shares the f-slur for a benign food product? Holy shit that's unfortunate.

My dad used to talk about them. He'd call it faggots and peas.