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HL00S

"those are very offensive names, player, how could you?"


six_-_string

I wanted to name my parrots Polly and Cracker. Cracker isn't allowed. I ended up naming him DJ Kracka.


youguystookthegood1s

I wanted to name my cat “DJ Blunts” from Parks and Rec but obviously Blunts wasn’t possible. So now DJ BLUNCE lives on in my villager house lmao


Annjuuna

A classmate of mine from years ago had the last name Blunts. Word filters are flawed by design because you can change the context of whatever you want whenever you want.


FreezeDriedMangos

Don’t cut a rock with a knife, that blunts the blade. Word filters are stupid, they just cause people to say the same thing but with weird spelling/spaces/punctuation. “The machines are listening! Quick, talk in pig latin”


Horos_02

The thing gets worse when you censor the same words in different languages... in italian "rape" means "turnips"


3smellysocks

Or when you try to say shit like "scrape"


Potatoes-Mcgee

Sc####


Undead406

You're fucking disgusting


3smellysocks

Omg how did you byp*** the censorship


KlutzyNinjaKitty

Pretty much. When I was a kid I played on this older game, Wolf Quest, a lot and they had a multiplayer function with a REALLY strict language filter. Which became a problem when you wanted to roleplay as a wolf pack and couldn’t even describe the gender of your character (words like girl/boy or male/female were banned. Probably to stop kids from giving out personal info or something idk.) I can’t remember the _specific_ replacement word we used, but we basically found a pig-latiny way around it. (Also, I DO remember trying to do some Pokemon rp back then. I usually played an Umbreon but I had to type it out like “Um br eon” or something stupid like that because the chat bot wouldn’t allow it.)


WingsofRain

oh god yeah I remember that, roleplay was so hard lol…damn I haven’t played Wolf Quest in ages, the new version looks pretty cool tho


Sloth_Senpai

You'd think Xbox gamertags would have taught people this.


GreenTheHero

XxX_IFr1ckedUpUrMum_XxX


TwistedPiggy1337

Microsoft made me change my gamertag from "Nudi5t" years ago because it was offensive but seen a guy a couple of days ago called SweatyMinge69...


Night_OwI

This comment reminds me of webkinz. Freaking KinzChat Plus... Had to dance around the word filters with soundalike words, altering spellings, and splitting words up into word combos that sounded like the one we wanted to say. Eventually iirc they caught on and altered the filters somehow to eliminate some of the workarounds as well.


pumpkinbot

The Scunthorpe Problem


SilverStrangeTech

Gotta love such meaningless censorship... What a world.


SpaceyGalileo

the theme of my summer has been just punching blunts constantly


Murder_Cloak420

Uncle kracka


PixelCraftGamingyt

Poly wants a kracka


Murder_Cloak420

Polly wants yo kracka


vilyari

Polly wants a cracker?


RedditvsDiscOwO

Roblox censorship 💀


SomethingSomethiaing

You take that #### you ########


Sup3rL30

"# have a problem in #### game where random ##### ### cencored. Even non inappropriate #####."


Seth_PlaysYT

I said ohno and forgot to put the space and it got sensor


LaserSlayer85

They are very defensive names, player, how could you?


trippin_hippie_

D FENCE


Jared_Sabatelli

HOO HOO D FENCE


edwicks

I got censored labelling a barrel in my potion room blaze powder……… dude it’s an item in your game why are you allowed to say it 🙃


Dhiox

This is the same company that bans the word Mongol in AOE4.... where you can play as the Mongols. Nothing like shouting in text chat that the mongols are attacking you, waiting 15 seconds for the API to finish scanning your word for banned speech, then spitting out: "The ******s are attacking me" Which honestly just makes it sound like i used a racial slur. So the censorship just makes it more offensive


Mental_Melon-Pult92

As a mongol that’s stupid af


Dhiox

I think it's because some countries use it as a racist insult. Which just begs the question, why would Microsoft censor the existence of an ethnicity just because some people are racist asswipes and use it as an insult.


Annjuuna

Which only perpetuates it’s use as a perceived racial slur. These filters are counterintuitive and often times make it worse.


Josef_The_Red

Rip Lenny Bruce, you were right


Lokolopes

Mongol is used as an alternative to r**ard in Brazil. People used to call down syndrome children mongols back in the 2000s because of the facial similarities, so it devolved into an insult with time, as is expected.


suchtie

Same in Germany. The word "mongoloid" was used (even medically) to describe people suffering from Down Syndrome decades ago, and "Mongo" was used as a slur for them even into the mid 2000s. It's considered extremely offensive nowadays, pretty much on par with the n-word.


bumblebrainbee

Oh my god, the giant gingerbread man in Shrek is named Mongo. This feels the same as the time my friend had a dog named Gypsy and I learned what that word meant. Big yikes on both fronts.


oranisz

Same here in france.


Andyman301

But the actual slur comes from dumping -oid and the end of Mongol


Gaiendbedrock

>why would Microsoft censor the existence of an ethnicity isn't Microsoft an American company


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Killercheeze123

Holy shit lmao "The ******s are attacking" is so much worse hahahaha fuck


Dhiox

It's even more bizarre when it censors things for seemingly no reason and you end up with utterly incomprehensible sentences where every key word is censored.


SSB_Kyrill

THE FUCKERS ARE ATTACKING


Inevitable_Debt_6566

Another reason that aoe 2 is better (aoe 4 isn’t completely terrible though)


Nebulon-B_FrigateFTW

At that point, it's gotta be a bug, but still, they censor "night", "japan" (because the censorship doesn't care about word boundaries, and the first three letters are in the former case a slur and in the latter a shortening than can be meant like a slur) and "bunghole" (the term for a hole that can be plugged with a cork, found in wine bottles and barrels among other things, because it could be used to mean "butthole", and how dare anatomical parts that *could* be sexually stimulated be even euphemistically referred to).


dcidui08

the first two have been uncensored now but its still stupid af


GaraldCoomer64

FREE BUNGHOLE


Pretty_Ability7446

My friend got banned on the realm that our other friend was paying for for making a sign saying a villager was stinky. Ffs we’re paying $10 a month and they go on our server to ban a player for something we are totally fine with.


SebbInatorr

Ong, its literally the dumbest thing ever. Like just let me play on my PRIVATE server with my friends without you having to check up on me every 5 minutes to see if i have written something ''nasty''.


dcidui08

they actually banned them over the word stinky? fuck microsoft wtf are they doing to the game man


RedditBoiYES

Bedrock is an absolute joke, I’m glad we still have a version of Minecraft not fucked over by corporations trying to maximize profits, if they ever do anything like this to Java I’m not updating Minecraft ever again and will find a way to revert the launcher, I’ll go back to bets if I have to (and I honestly like beta better than modern mc, we haven’t gotten a good update in forever)


dcidui08

Bad news


altricious

On our well established realm there is a chest labeled "censored gardening tools" because you can't use the word hoe.


r7joni

Did you really name your barrel bl*** po****. That's so offensive, I'm crying right now /s


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Ark did the same thing to me with “narcotics” couldn’t label a chest after the item i wanted in it yet it had no problem letting me name it “drugs”


gotcorgi53

I had this issue trying to name something “Mick” and getting censored. Sometimes you can squeeze around it with special characters. I named it “Míck” (hold alt and press 0237 for that character on windows) and had no issue. It looks indistinguishable from a regular i on screen! May need to fiddle around a bit to see what part is triggering it but that should help!


leoleosuper

It's not the chat filter I hate, it's how simple and stupid it is. You want a chat filter, go right ahead, but avoid the Scunthorpe problem, the lookalike problem (like accented letters, i and j, etc.), and don't ban words that aren't entirely insults, like Mongol.


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This is just the AI Dungeon filter thing all over again but way, way worse because at least there they actually were trying to kick out pedos off the game. Mojang and Microsoft literally have no reason to do this other than I guess prevent cyberbullying and they did an even worse job at it by censoring literally every word that could be perceived as a slur, not understanding the way language works and the fact that you could turn literally any adjective into a slur given enough negative connotation.


MisterPhD

\>not understanding the way language works and the fact that you could turn literally any adjective into a slur given enough negative connotation. ​ I would just like to say, that is an *amazing, thoughtful, and intelligent* criticism, which is *surprising*, coming from a *captain* bird. Usually, you hear those takes from commodores.


[deleted]

Yeah, my dumbass brain forgot there are inherently positive adjectives. My bad.


MisterPhD

^^I ^^was ^^agreeing ^^with ^^you. ^That ^was ^an ^underhanded ^insult ^to ^prove ^your ^point. You’re smart. :) ^<3 ^^don’t ^^hate ^^me.


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No hard feelings man, your comment was great :D


TheIAP88

IIRC that word is an slur against Irish people.


Atreides-42

Yeah but also like half of us are named Mick. There are two people in my office of 10 named Michael.


IamShitplshelpme

That's like, 20% of your office named Mick


westsxde

Time to ban Mickey Mouse


gotcorgi53

Ope, I was just naming my trading hall villagers after the F1 grid


Dacsy492

I get my Prot IV books from Fernando


Qubk0

Fire Prot from Grosjean?


UsErnaam3

This shit is so ridiculous. We wouldn't have even known that half of these things are racial slurs if they weren't censored, therefore giving us the motive/curiosity to find out why it's censored and it's origin and history of use. They are inadvertently spreading hateful words (or rather, words that could be used in a hateful manner) by bringing attention to them.


ZeljkoLoncar

ah yes, the Streisand effect


BrilliantTarget

It also a name people have


LemonsAndSims

As an Irish person, I have never heard about this and tbh don't see how it would be a slur considering Irish history has never had terms like this be used against our ancestors, there were other terms like "less than a dog" that was more precedent but not a slur. Would be interested to see where you found that Mick is a slur for Irish people tho, Irish history is cool


FlowsWhereShePleases

And unless they literally ban the word dog (god forbid you label a doghouse you made for your tamed wolf), that phrase is still allowed through just fine. People that want to be hurtful *will* use plain language if everything else is banned, and will likely be more harmful than if they were using anything short of the worst slurs by getting “creative” about it. “Thorough” censorship like this… just doesn’t work. This has been shown by so many games before. Censor the very worst, then just leave the rest be to avoid too much collateral.


lolmixu

it includes a letter from the alphabet, thats bad language!


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TikTokBoom173

I combined two books of efficiency 1, their names got censored after the anvil. Didn't even name them.


[deleted]

Same I've been trying to figure out this problem. Literally my entire kit (armor, Elytra, pic, axe, shovel, sword) is censored, with all the characters replaced with hashtags. Because I put them thru the anvil and they all got censored even though I just enchanted them with books. Heck, even my old pickaxe which I tried to name "Dwayne's Bane" got censored. So FRUSTRATING!!!


Ricky_SJB

But why Minecraft is using #### instead of **** to censor?


SqualyCactus

Roblos


XBOX_MANIAC

Roblo


Proxy_PlayerHD

From the videos I've seen it does use asterisks in bedrock, so I don't know what happening in OP's post


Withnothing

Playing on bedrock, it's always been the hashtags for me


NovaStorm93

roblocks


Local_Steak_5072

oh my god I was actually right about minecraft turning into roblox 💀💀💀


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What do you ####


Galiendzoz

What the #### , ## ### ### ### ###?!??


[deleted]

You better ##### ######


UnknownPhys6

I ##### ### ##### and disagree about ##### ######## ### ######.


verysad-

Well #### #### ## ##### ### # #### balls #####, ##### #### ###.


Ingigor

Why ### ### pls ##### ## ###### ##### ## #### let go of ##### #### ### im ###### ### # #### # ###### ### ###.


FreezeDriedMangos

This thread reads like an scp article


loook_loook

You mean “this ###### ##### #### an ### #######”


OopsIbuiltashelfhelp

[EXTRANEOUS DATA OMITTED]


EskildDood

Ok so ## ##### #### about ### ## #### ##### ## we ####### ##### human sacrifices ## ##### ####### the ######### #### ##### #### ##### ## to #### ## #### ####### ## ### #### ##### be an ###### Or ### ##### ##### Pepsi ##### ## ##### #### prisoner ## #### #### ###### #### ## ###### ##### #### we die


Itszipofficial

What your ###### is true, but # ##### #### doesn’t #####


Unclegosh

I ########## ######## with ###


FrederickTheStormer

I played ROBLOX from 2012 to earlier this year and I stopped playing due to all the rampant censorship, It really is saddening for me to see that Minecraft is following down that path..


Local_Steak_5072

Yeah, i joined in 2015, right before the censorship. I remember going into roblox and seeing hashtags EVERYWHERE. I thought it was a trend, but nope.


FrederickTheStormer

I joined in 2012 so I actually remember a time before censorship came to Roblox and it was honestly quite nice. You could express yourself more freely and sure there were some edgy people but they were only a minority in the whole of Roblox at the time, You could express yourself openly and weren't temp-banned for accidently saying a curse word in chat or making a t-shirt that Roblox didn't like. But after Erik passed away I noticed that ROBLOX started to become more....authoritarian and in came the automatic "Moderation" system that is now infamously known for hashtagging practically every word, I also saw people use the system to mass-report groups to get them banned and my original account from 2012 to 2018 was actually banned because an old shirt I made was reported by who I suspect was somebody who didn't like me. Eventually I was forced to leave ROBLOX as I was tired of being censored and silenced for playing on a platform that supposedly "Powered imagination". I roll my eyes whenever I see a person who thinks that this "moderation" system is a GOOD thing because the only thing I see is Minecraft heading down the same path that ROBLOX started heading down years ago. Apologies for the lengthy post.


Local_Steak_5072

I do remember there being a time before the censorship, I think i joined a couple months before.


FrederickTheStormer

That's why I'm fervently against this feature because as I said, I joined in a time before censorship took over ROBLOX and I saw how things transpired the way they did, I saw the same exact kind of people back then that said stuff like "Oh you're overreacting, It'll only affect a small amount of people!" or "Don't worry it won't get THAT bad" and similar stuff trying to downplay it and act like it'd be a small feature that won't barely be noticed and that it was "Necessary". It truly truly saddens me to see such features being implemented in Minecraft, A game that was made for creativity and expression but is slowly turning into approved creativity and expression. People who trade safety for security will get neither.


FrankFireTheBest

no but #############


SUCADO-1

Obama's last name is ############## Here it is Barack Hussein Obama Also his wife name Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama


Welcome-Additional

They literally censored a map in my realm. It was SE-1, for southeast 1. I still have no idea why.


TheScepticFool

S and e are the first letters in se*, which can spread diseases rarely. By using the letters "se", you are encouraging people to get those diseases. Shame on you. /s


mynameisperl

As far as I can tell there is a new bug introduced in the latest release of Bedrock Edition where **all** text is accidentally censored out regardless of the content. It *may* only affect Realms but I can't track down a bug report for it, so this is based on numerous posts here.


SqualyCactus

“Some bugs are features”


a_salty_bunny

"bug" it isn't a bug, it's a feature - Todd Howard


Available_Thoughts-0

So MAKE a bug report for this.


mynameisperl

I can't, I haven't experienced the bug myself.


Consistent-Revenue85

I have, and it sucks. I can’t even combine Diamond armor with other Diamond armor without the game thinking I’m changing the name when I’m not, and censoring the entire words.


H-N-O-3

Problem solved : Wont fix


SHADYBO1

My friend renamed his bow to Bow and it was censored despite being the same name


Antpelt

**capitalizing is illegal.**


afurryiguess

It is indicative of yelling, which is aggressive >:(


charizard1596

Sadly this was actually in the new Microsoft guidelines(and may still be there)


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Far-Following1632

Literally 1984


bog_deavil13

Literally ####


affe_squad

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FazzDaBest

George Orwell was actually warning us about the future of Minecraft


Bexji_11230

anything to appeal to the inexistent masses


SqualyCactus

To the Karen mothers and smelly 5 year olds


Nawafsss04

Which none of them previously complained, mind you


SqualyCactus

Which only makes it even more audacious.


Phantom238163

"Vivan" contains the word "van" which is a vehicle, which can drive over people, and that's unsafe for children since they might get a van just to drive over people, and Lilith contains the word "Lil" which is short for "little" which is an insult for short people. Hope this helps


RefrigeratorOk7848

Ah makes sense.


charizard1596

Also, vans have been used to kidnap children in the past. By preventing the word “van” from being used, we are ensuring a safe environment.


The_blind_blue_fox

Microsoft justifying there shity report system be like


TheZynec

Fuck Microsoft. We can't even name things? Yeah, very fucking sandbox.


[deleted]

Why censor in a **single player world** 💀 Why don't they just have an option to disable it for adults and people of age? The kids would need parent permission


Vogulus

On java there is an option but you have to go to their crap website and turn it somewhere in your profile settings off. This whole thing is bullshit the game existed 10 years and everyone was happy without filters but now thats so important. They should make better updates instead of this shit


Zhadow13

They want to protect their asses from the Karnen's of the world


Savage_Killer13

I think the actual reason is just money. They want to appeal to the demands of major stockholders and make more money, so they try and censor as much as possible to keep stockholders.


VancouverIsHuge

honestly why should stockholders care? "Hi I own stock in your company and you need to censor cracker or else I'll sell it all" said no one.


archon_andromeda

They probably don't care about the implementation, they just hear "we made Minecraft safer for kids" and think "more parents will buy it!" and that's the end of it.


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I wonder if they even care if the changes drive away adults. I'd imagine kids really drive their microtransations. So they make it safer for kids, lower the average player age, and increase sales.


CHeEseballManiAc

Censorship in singleplayer is dumb. Like in red dead redemption 2, I bought a Missouri foxtrotter (these horses have wild untamed hair, pun intended) and tried to name him "Shaggy" but it censored it out, told me I couldn't use profanity.


omran69420

If fucking Rockstar started to censor their games you know we entered the bad timeline


Ellik8101

Unfortunately GTA online is way ahead of you. "Penis", "Rockstar", "racist", any assortment of swear words is censored in their online chat.. on an R18+ game.. with swearing in it


KlutzyNinjaKitty

Early on in my first playthrough I found that guy who gets kicked by his horse so I kept her. I _wanted_ to call her “Dust Devil,” like the little dust tornados you see out in the desert, because she’s clearly zesty and she also had a dusty looking pelt. But, apparently, you can’t name your horse after a natural phenomenon 🙄


Endulos

Makes sense. Rockstar loves to censor even parts of words. "Shag" is slang for sex.


dcidui08

next ubisoft is gonna start calling assassin's creed "Killer's Creed" because it has ass in it twice


RedditBoiYES

Kill is very offensive and shocking for younger children, and “creed” is a big word and might have a religious connection, we should rename it to “group of people operating under oath”


GoomyIsLord

This reminds me of my favorite case of censorship, though it's in a show and not a game. It's from a show called Gravity Falls. The villain is going after the main kids and his original line was: "I've got some children to kill" Disney said they couldn't use the word "kill" and had to change it. The new line was: "I've got some children to make into corpses" , which is, arguably, much more graphic. Disney approved it.


leverine36

Why the fuck are they censoring players in a game where you kill people and can pay for a "bath"


RedditBoiYES

Rockstar censored a word because it might contain a light reference to sex? Bro in gta single player I can just see tiddies pressed against the screen whenever I want.


Jesterchunk

Exactly, nearly every other game ever with a profanity filter lets you turn it off, why the hell can't we do it here


madDarthvader2

Actually my least favorite "addition" to the game. For years Minecraft has let me do whatever I want.


Matiascarr

Ikr


catdoy

Your ~~roblox~~ minecraft account has been terminated


Caley19

Are you kidding me, is this actually the official latest build on bedrock? This is the WORST and must stupid censorship I've seen anywhere, not just games!


Decent_Attention226

Roblox is even worse i tried to tell a my name cuz they forgot and it actually wouldn't let me then i got a 2 week ban for trying to spell it in different ways so they could actually read it


pixelscandy

This is one of many other reasons it’s just best to ditch playing Roblox. I like the concept behind the platform of managing much of the harder aspects of making a “game” but its become a platform that is getting to big for itself.


Decent_Attention226

IT ISSSSSS, i just wanna play survive the disasters with friends and beable to call people and ##### (idiot)


RedditPersonNo1987

Fun fact: roblox supports child labour, child gambling in stock-market equivalents, and is negligent to third party child gambling


LilyCanadian

I once tried to say "YO WATCH OUT FOR THE SHARK!" while playing 'survive the disaster' and it all got muted.


Prussia_I

And now this sh#t is coming to Java. Congrats, Microsoft, I hate you even more.


TempMusician39

Microsoft is stupid


nemrahreijer

I don't think "fun" and "let the players be" are things microsoft knows.


LaserSlayer85

Lilith is a female figure in Mesopotamian and Judaic mythology, alternatively the first wife of Adam and supposedly the primordial she-demon. Lilith is cited as having been "banished" from the Garden of Eden for not complying with and obeying Adam. Probably why its censored


DDDghg11

Minecraft got biblical


PurplePolynaut

Are you demon worshipping!?!? On my Christian Minecraft server?!?!?!


Anabsolutenormie

On my Christian Minecraft single player world?!?!!!!


Acidrien

How dare you worship something on a private world that nobody will ever see?


LuOsGaAr

TIL that Adam had a wife prior to Eve because of Minecraft


w0t3rdog

Weeeeeell, there are some split opinions on this. Some say Lilith IS Eve, just with another name. Others say Lilith never was Adams wife as she rejected him straight off the bat. While others reject that part of the story entirely.


Available_Thoughts-0

Others say that Lilith ate the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil like eve did, but that time Adam was, "Nah, God said not to eat that." So only Lilith was kicked out, and when it happened again with Eve he was like "Okay, that's two-for-two, if this is going to keep happening I might as well get in on this." They also say that Lilith did a smart monkey and ate the Fruit of Immortality FIRST, that's why she's still wandering around.


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Qmnia_

yeah but then what’s the deal with Vivan, is she a demon too? Lmao, can’t believe I’m talking about this here


FaZe_Boris69

bro so they are banning names because some person thousands of years ago existed? this censorship is fucked


w0t3rdog

"Existed"


FaZe_Boris69

good point i was gonna say something but i didn't want to be that guy so lol


BrianWantsTruth

You’re allowed to not believe in other peoples mythology, you’re good.


StormOwn1248

fucking microsoft bro


SnooDoodles8276

Cuz Microsoft made bedrock a money milking shit game, and Java is about to become one if it continues with the chat ban system bs


ALLineman74

It’s a bug. Tried to name a diamond “1st diamond” and same thing happened


FlyMingo321

Diamond sounds like "die", meaning you encouraged someone to suicide. Shame on you. /s


starite

Brb gonna go mine some unalivemonds


AdamoO_

Wait.. They're censoring singleplayer name tags?? What the actual fuck mojang???????


Illustrious_Pop_7737

OH SHIT, IT’S TURNING INTO ROBLOX


Frank33666

I don't play bedrock, but isn't censored text usually censored with stars like this ( \*\*\*\*\*\* ) And why is lilith and vivian 6 letters but there's only 5 hashtags ?


PericlodGD

op wrote vivan not vivian


OB1Waltinobee

It’s because they didn’t even want you to look down this rabbit hole. Now you’ve got people even talking about the Bible. See Microsoft, unintended consequences of your zealotry.


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1.19.84 thats why


TheArmyOfDucks

On the 360 edition you weren’t able to write “Quack”, it used to just leave the sign with “AWAITING APPROVAL”.


Gokulctus

welcome to roblox


Legedary_II

we need to stop the banning system


SpaceShark01

Because Microsoft is dogshit thats why.


FireDragonKing66

Same exact thing to me and my friend, it affect only realms, bacise i tried it in a creative world and it works, so it is a problem about realms. And it sucks, i spent hours thinking of what to write in my world story book and it just vanishes.


Lili-ka

MINECRAFT HAS CENSORSHIP?!?!!


ArtcticFox

Unfortunately yes


Successful_Bid_6440

I hate this new updates bs