Why is the word "Niger" is censored in csgo?

[76561198049373447]

Someone asked me which is my country..I tried to tell them "Niger" which is a country in Africa but it appeared like this "****" wth! Is my country offensive now ? Nîgér is one of the oldest countries in Africa and I'm offended that steam doesn't acknowledge that

[ok420]

rage a écrit :

ok420 a écrit :

I was talking about Europe not some single irrelevant countries. Its PEGI 18.
And even 15 isnt elementary school age anymore where it wouldnt be completely ridiculous to censor words.

Maybe you should go back to school.

0 logic behind that comment but Im not surprised.

[76561198049373447]

People I didn't make this topic to start a flame war, i only have one point, Niger is not an offensive word and the in-game chat filter shouldn't censor it, like how can westerners say that "black lives matter" while they refuse to even acknowledge our country's name?

[76561198049373447]

Update: my country's name is still censored like it's an offensive racial slur or something..shame on u valve and ur racist developers

[aK]

they even censored pp of pp-bizon, this is so stupid.

[Jelly Donut]

mina a écrit :

Update: my country's name is still censored like it's an offensive racial slur or something..shame on u valve and ur racist developers

You have the option to disable the profanity filter.

If Valve is racist, they wouldn’t even give you the option to do so, let alone they would make CS:GO Super child friendly that saying a vulgarity or (false) words that go against their profanity filter will instantly lead you to a chat ban like Club Penguin.

[Edson]

It's not censored because they don't care for these countries or something. It's because if they leave it to be said like that, then people will use it as a substitute for the N word, worsening your country's reputation on the game.

Imagine this

Someone: Where are ya from?

Other one: Niger

That someone: Why are you mad? Idiot.

It's for a reason, because the community can't have good things
It might be sad, but basically the community made this

[76561198049373447]

Badonkadonks! a écrit :

mina a écrit :

Update: my country's name is still censored like it's an offensive racial slur or something..shame on u valve and ur racist developers

You have the option to disable the profanity filter.

This is not a solution.. because I can only disable it from my side.. to me "Niger" would appear normally but people on the other side would see it like this "*****" some even kicked me from competitive matches because they thought I was insulting them .. people who use "Niger" to insult someone are ignorant..cracker is an offensive word too yet it's not censored .. because Valve assumed that people will use it in good faith to refer to that type of biscuits rather than using it to insult someone with white skin.

[大耳朵图图]

The valve is really bad in terms of censorship. Some activists don't come to play the game. They just sign up for this account and enter the game. They start to slander you and your country with vulgar words. It makes me feel sick and affects my mood all day.

[vegan cookies]

I mean...

https://steamcommunity.com/id/appldrobla/

You don't think that that might be something to stop?

[Damian]

mina a écrit :

scratch69420 a écrit :

Bcs ppl will say that referring to a racist word, not the country.

Well I don't care about these people..I'm proud of my country..also the racist word have double G's not my country's name ..

Exactly people should educate themselves about words and not blindly censor and block everything. I can't remember, but there was a combination of words that got cencored when writing in a game called Smite. It was a simple question not rude or anything, but when the space was removed it had a bad word inside like

id iot
id = indentification
iot = internet of things

[raz]

why do you ask such a stupid question?

[76561198049373447]

Raz__ a écrit :

why do you ask such a stupid question?

To educate stupid people who thinks that "Niger" is an offensive word..just like the people who thinks "Turkey" is only a bird that is good for Thanksgiving

[George Becali]

Also tried to tell my rank is LEM, but LEM is censored. Why LEM is banned from chat ?

[dava]

mina a écrit :

AOwlNest a écrit :

do you mean censored in game Chat ?

cuz its not censored here

Yes it's censored in the game chat, in order to tell people my county's name I have to type it in a different way like nīgēr or n/ger..this is not normal and Valve should remove this word from their chat filter because it's not offensive

You can try to underscore the word to bypass the filter. I'm pretty sure Valve can find a way to create and exception like make the filter check if there is a word "from / in" behind it and if so, the filter wouldn't block it.

[Jaeru]

It is censored because edgy 12-year-olds think it's funny to say Niger, because it is one letter away from the racist word. These are the same people that have "You are" as their "real name" and Niger as their country on their profile, because it resembles the n-word. I do agree that it shouldn't be censored, but I could see people abusing it and saying the n word without second g if it wasn't.