Chris Trottier on Nostr: Censorship is getting ridiculous. Just saw a billboard for Odoo: “Business software ...

Censorship is getting ridiculous.

Just saw a billboard for Odoo:

“Business software that doesn’t s*ck.”

S*ck?

We’re afraid of “suck” now?

This is a word with the raw sexual menace of a vacuum cleaner. Straws suck. Mosquitoes suck. Bad movies suck. Kid Rock sucks.

Nobody died.

If you’re that scared of the word, just say “awful.” But no! Odoo wanted edge. A little danger. A little switchblade in the advertisement.

Then they replaced the blade with a butter knife.

“Doesn’t s*ck.”

Baby, you sucked the suck right out of suck.

Now I want MORE censorship. Censor everything.

Bic*cle.

Gl*ss.

H*ppy.

That last one is good because nobody knows whether I’m experiencing joy or warning them about hippies or describing a taste in beer.

Enough with this coy little typographical striptease. If you want to say the word, SAY THE GODDAMN WORD.

Give me the vowels.

Give me the consonants.

Give me language with its pants off.

And if somebody clutches their pearls?

Let ’em clutch.