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posted ago by Monomial ago by Monomial +41 / -0

My daughter just showed me an interesting feature in Roblox (an online children's game like Minecraft). The game automatically censors many words (replaces them with hashes) if you try and type them in chat. This includes the obvious profanities, which is not unreasonable for a game targeted at children.

But there are also some oddities. In particular, you are not allowed to type Jesus. That gets censored. However, there is no censorship and it is perfectly acceptable to discuss Satan and hell.

Now, some might argue that people use Jesus as a swear word, and therefore it should be censored. But people also say hell in exactly the same context, and that is deemed OK. That argues to me it is not really the profane context they are censoring, but the religious connotations.

Just a data point to consider when deciding what your children are allowed to play.