I was writing a blog post recently, and was describing some approximate and rough calculations. The way we might describe this in the UK is to call them "back of a *** packet" calculations. The word: '***' meaning cigarette.
It's also a word used to describe a form of servitude common in English Public Schools a few years back (and some today actually).
However, my blog, run on Community Server, decided to change '***' to '***'!
Ah, so I see what's happening now... the word I can't seem to use in this post is F - A - G. Which my blog turns into ***. I checked the original post, and the word is intact, so it must be doing the automated censorship and translation at Runtime!
I am guessing that this built-in censorship is due to the fact that this word in the United States is used as a derogatory term for someone who is gay... not here though! However this is an international blog, so do I have duty to be wary of things like this? Or am I allowed to be as British as I like? What exactly is the blogging etiquette on this? Or should I just allow the server I'm on to censor as it sees fit?
Yours effin and blindin, Bollocks Wanker Dawson. :)