there is a psychological cost

and a social cost

and a community cost

to having to carry in your head a list of bad words that might get you demonetized or demoted or shadowbanned

there is moral injury that comes with inventing euphemisms and vague roundabouts and nicknames for a word like: suicide to make sure your friends are even able to see what you spent time to say and share

it is humiliating and demoralizing to be asked to do this to yourself and your own words all in hopes of evading censors

having to live on a platform with an invisible hand on your throat that can choke you out and delete you at any time with no recourse