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Swearing shouldn't ever be censored.
Except for comedic purposes. Sometimes a bleep just sounds more vulgar than the swear word it's hiding.
Funny, litterally had a convo with my wife about this the other day, in context of the song Killing in the Name lol
How's that unpopular? It's just not popular with a bunch of puritans, who says luckily on the minority.
Have you heard about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hays_Code Pretty wild to look back at all the things banned until 1968!
Even if you're talking about Sw*d*s?!?!