It's censorship in the way that HN disallowing editorialising the submission title is censorship. Technically true, I guess, but not super helpful.

But it is not safety if you forbid talking about sex, if you want to learn about certain things which could be missused. Same as banning murder in video games. Same as banning books that deal with these topics. It's definitely closer to censorship than safety.

Reminds me on this [1] from George Carlin.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isMm2vF4uFs

Thank you, I didn't know this bit. I always believed that great comedians are also the best communicators

To me censorship implies human speech being curtailed.

I censor my poor APIs so they don’t leak the bcrypt key when you GET /user/:id

Language is mostly used for conditioning people into doing things. People will continue using language to manipulate you into giving your time or money to them. You cannot change others from trying to manipulate you. You can only change yourself and stop taking language seriously.