If in a work of fiction I have a villain call my hero the n-word to demonstrate that the villain is an unapologetic racist, and I am told that I can't have that because the word is bad in and of itself and that racist behavior cannot be tolerated even in fiction..
That is censorship, even if your goals are noble they are also ignorant, as showing disgusting things in fiction is often done in order to condemn similar behavior in real life.
If you call a black person the n-word in real life, and he stomps your ass.
This isn't censorship, this is comedy.
If one goes onto an online community and calls its members radical insults in an unfriendly clearly non-joking hostile manner. Then the guilty party should be removed from that community,
One was that there was a bit in the script where the bankrobbers used Michael Myers masked to rob a bank, but the studio couldn't get the rights to show Mikeyboi. So they just rewrote it into a joke and used Mike Myers masks, with the in-universe explanation being that the guy who bought the masks has simply never seen Halloween and did not know he was supposed to get the Horror Movie Character... and that Mike Myers apparently thought the bit was so funny that he okay'd his likeness for the flick.
You do know we can't measure consciousness either right? But we still know it happens, it's the only thing we can know for sure happens because we're all experiencing it right now.
We still don't know a lot about how the brain works, and again, it's pretty weird that this is universe that recycles everything except consciousness: Matter and energy cannot be destroyed, they only change form.
Ever look into NDEs? Weird stuff, they thought it was just oxygen deprived hallucinations, but then they keep finding very specific and powerful brain activity after the patient is declared dead that suggests something is going on in a big way. Something much bigger than neurons randomly firing in an attempt to reignite the brain, the brain's ignited like never before despite the fact that it should be dead. They also keep finding that Near Death Experiences are so damn universal that for the weird magic sounding stuff to be a hoax, then hundreds of thousands of people would have to have been in on it since the dawn of man.
Never assume that science knows everything. Not because "Religion has all the answers", but because science is not a religion, it's not a big book that you can just find answers in. It's an on-going process of questioning everything and then going "That's funny, that shouldn't be happening." right before learning about a new set of questions to ask.
It's actually really beautiful.
Update: Oh yeah Information can't be destroyed either, not even by a black hole... and you really think Conciousness is the one exemption?
Dude, don't gaslight someone into suicide, not even ChatGPT