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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jaelis" data-source="post: 7124052" data-attributes="member: 60210">I see that my statement came across poorly. If you believe that the developers changed their text because they were afraid that they might be assaulted, or doxxed, or suffer some other concrete harm, then indeed they would have self censored. That is a thing that can happen, yes. But it very clearly did not happen in this case since (a) the developers have talked about their reasoning and (b) they did use the word and they were not assaulted or doxxed.On the other hand, if they decided to change the word because they did not want to offend people, then that is not self-censorship and it does not make sense to call it that. That is just them saying what they wanted to say. And based on the same evidence as above, that is what happened. It seemed to me that this scenario is what we were discussing at the time. If you were really referring to the possibility that they were under threat, then I misinterpreted your remark but you were wrong in a different way.</blockquote>