I rarely use Twitter, so I’m hooping someone who does can answer this: why do so many people self-censor words using an ‘*’ to replace a single letter?

Ex: nearly everyone discussing the Trump shooting is using “assass*nation” and “sn*per” instead of the actual words.

Does this have something to do with having your account suspended? Is it a monetization thing? It’s been done for years with curse/taboo words, but censoring regular terms is bizarre.

#asknostr