Why are words/phrases that are common in a PG-13 movie edited by Yahoo!Answers?

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"Children under the age of 13 are not permitted to ask or answer questions on Yahoo! Answers nor communicate or attempt to communicate with other Yahoo! Answers members. To learn more about using Yahoo! Answers safely, please visit http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/answers...

If Y!A Themselves say that no one under 13 is allowed to use this service why is everything censored so heavily?

It's all about liability.

Their software programs automatically replace certain words with *****. It's far from perfect as a creative person can still cuss their heads off without the words being censored.

There's really no way for Yahoo to prevent kids younger than 13 using Y!A.

So, assuming there ARE lots of younger kids using this site, doesn't it make sense to keep the language clean?

Pretty much anything that needs to be asked or answered can be done without using nasty language anyway, so there's no reason to use it in any case.

Because this isn't a movie. We go by Yahoo! Answer's rules, not the movie rating system. Just because we have a minimum age of 13 on here, it has nothing to do with the movie rating system.

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