Oh the Irony

Anyone else find the following strangely ironic?

Whenever you are functioning in an environment where certain types of speech (such as profanity) are censored, the censors themselves must familiarize themselves with it in order to censor it? Sort of the way vice cops have to become scum to defeat scum.

In other words, in order to create a filter that blocks undesireable speech, you have to specify what is undesireable, which requires YOU to immerse yourself in said undesireable speech. Governments who are trying to block anti state propaganda from reaching the people must familiarize themselves with it which in and of itself helps to spread it, and does so in the most damaging environment of all.

On the inside.

And - most relevant to this forum - in the case of profanity, it isn't like any nine year old can't decrypt "**** you, you ****ing ****er and your ****ing little dog, too! I will see you burn in ****!"

Oh gee...I wonder what I said? The world may never know, thanks to those cleverly placed asterisks.

Don't get me wrong, I am not saying in a relatively friendly environment like Gamespot there should not be restrictions; it just seems to me that a more productive filter would force you to completely change your wording so that the context itself is no longer profane, since just substituting asterisks isn't deceiving anyone at all.

I just find most forms of censorship in general to be a little laughable, somewhat self defeating and more often than not, prone to draw unnatural attention to the things it is trying to cover up.

I just think that's funny. Pretty ****ing funny, in fact.