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Why you should never censor audible profanity in captions/subtitles

September 23, 2020 • Ahmed Khalifa • Episode 83

Episode 83 - There seems to be a worrying and dangerous trend where large brands are censoring potential profanity and swear words in auto-captions. They claim that it is to avoid mistakes, but still, this is not a good idea.

This is following the recent news that YouTube has decided to censor potential profanity in their auto-captions just in case they pop up as mistakes. But this goes against the whole concept of having captions/subtitles in the first.

Even though you can adjust the settings, it sets a very dangerous precedent for all deaf people as it's a default setting...and who is going to edit that?

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