@ryo @digdeeper @gnusocialjp @udon Well, the advantage is that it's harder to ban specific things in languages that are more contextual without completely crippling the language to the point that people can't even use it anymore. Like, when a word can mean many different things, they may want to ban it because of one meaning, but not be able to because some of those other meanings may be essential for the language to function. And in a language that has fewer sounds in general, that tends to happen more. Plus there are multiple writing systems, so it's easier to get creative than it is in western languages.

One example that maybe you heard off... I think it may have been the media, but whoever it was, retards were getting super offended because Japanese sportsball players were saying 逃げる, and to their tiny brains that sounds like nigger. Well, what if people start sending にげる to Obama? Are they going to ban saying "to run away/avoid/win without being overtaken/escape/fail to hold an ideal posture"? You can more easily use words that sound similar enough and are too essential to be banned. Silly, example, but I think it makes the point.

There are also no spaces, that's another thing to get creative with. That's another hurdle for software to overcome, being able to tell when one word is ending and another is beginning. I bet you could do things with that too. I think these things definitely make censorship through software much more complicated.