This picture shows us exactly how powerful censorship can be when it comes to completely changing the meaning of something. In this case the word f*ckr is introduced. At quick glance and to the common eye many could see this as potentially a swear word. Adding to this all the children's eyes are covered like there not allowed to see "the mystery word". The mystery word is meant to say flickr, which is a program on yahoo that basically is like a search engine for pictures. The point of this picture is meant to show us how hiding or blocking something can completely change both the meaning and the interpretation someone makes of what their seeing. All this picture is blocking is the brand name "flickr" when it's obvious how people could easily mistake this word for something much worse. Therefore, this shows us that just because you censor something, it doesn't mean that your doing the viewer a favor. You could potentially be hiding something that the viewer does not need protection from in the first place and make them believe their watching something worse than what they really are and end up having a negative feeling towards it as a result; a feeling that might not be there if the material wasn't censored in the first place.
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