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by pixl97 1329 days ago
Eh, no it's about the publics interpretation of appearance. Your Gmail filters out a metric shitton of spam. If they stopped doing that and all you got was thousands of penis enlargement emails per day the number of advertisers would drop significantly because the tools utility would drop significantly.

The reason 'xyz' gets banned where xyz is negatively viewed is because it tends to end up everywhere and reduce the utility of the platform.