Because modern journalism is ad supported, and advertisers don’t want their ads next to anything related to sex.
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Babalugats@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
afrogazette.co.zw/zimbabwe-sx-workers-still-accep…
Who started this ridiculous trend where the fucking words letters are substituted with symbols or numbers. Sex. Why can’t sex be written? I’ve seen it with tons of other words too but can’t remember the which ones.
realitaetsverlust@piefed.zip 3 weeks ago
brokenwing@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
T1ts
ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
$€×¥ 8008135
NotSteve_@piefed.ca 3 weeks ago
It sorta makes sense on overly censored social media platforms but what, that’s an article on their own personally managed website? That’s bizarre
pennomi@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Advertisers avoid placing ads in controversially named pages. They are likely protecting their income
bizarroland@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
And it’s Zimbabwe, which is like 80 something percent Christian according to Wikipedia, so their cultural moors might be different from more liberal and progressive areas.
Tja@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
And as the Bible says, God is stupid and if you change one letter he doesn’t know that you are talking about sex. (Matthew 69:420)