The history of typographic $#!+ing
Mark Liberman has done a bit of investigation into the history of typographic censorship (or ‘bleeping‘ as he calls it). It is a very different thing than taking a black marker to text as a tool for censorship. Typographic bleeping involves the replacing of one character with another to abstract or obscure offending words. Anybody who bought a hip hop cassette in the 1990s is well familiar with this trend.
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