Why do we sometimes write titles with asterisks like this?

Have you wondered why we sometimes put asterisks in words in our titles?

Like this:

President Trump on first anniversary of Ass*ss*nation effort: “God had something to do with it!”

And this:

UPDATE: Firefighters killed in Idaho sh**ting identified

Why are we doing this?

Is it because we are awake?

became soft?

Are we adopting a censorship system?

This is what some of you have stated in the (frankly very illogical and angry) emails I have sent you!

Like this from William (last name and email edited for privacy purposes):

William is very angry with me for using wires!

William is a “big boy” and doesn’t need my censorship! And he’s unsubscribing from my “pansy” site!

I think it’s “Pansy” by the way, William, but whatever.

So…is that what we’re doing?

Have we succumbed to the woke mob and are we trying to censor the news of people like William who are big boys and can handle reading entire uncensored headlines?

Well, if you believe that then you haven’t been here very long or you don’t know anything about my history here or my character.

We don’t do that.

We are not like that.

So…back to the main question: Why are we doing this?

This is probably for a strategic reason, wouldn’t you think?

And to be fair, I’m sure most of you believe so because for every single “William” who sends me such a childish and immature email, there are probably a million of you who receive it. So maybe I’m preaching to the choir.

But I really wanted to address this and give you an answer as to why we do this.

And the answer is simple… because there is a censorship brigade out there, but I’m not censoring your stuff. This Big Tech is blocking me from reaching you!

You see, once we publish and article, it goes to a million different places.

It is shared on social media – Facebook, X, Telegram, TruthSocial.

This is also sent in our email newsletter to which many of you subscribe (Join for free here,

And what happens in all of this is that places like Facebook and email companies have huge censorship technology that constantly scans certain words and removes you if you use them.

The list is long, but words like murder or murder or bombing or knife or gun or hundreds of other words can get you banned instantly.

Suddenly, Mark Zuckerberg decided he knows what you should be allowed to see better than you, so if the title of our article includes a banned word and you try to post it on Facebook the post may be shadowed, or removed or sometimes the person trying to share it may be sent to Facebook jail.

Same thing for email…if an article has a banned word in the title and we include it in our email newsletter, companies like Gmail and Yahoo, Mail and AOL will determine that they know better than you what you should be reading and they’ll send that email to your spam folder, or they’ll simply delete it and never let it get into your inbox.

It’s all absolutely real.

And it seems to be getting worse.

So I have an option, and it’s like the option that Thomas Massie had in Congress…

I could choose to be super doctrinaire and use banned words in my titles without any editing and I would be super doctrinaire and I would have taken a stand and people like “big boy” William would be very happy! Because we did not bow before the awakened crowd! That’s the Messi approach. Principled and you win the battle but lose the war.

Or…I can take the Trumpian approach which is to play their game by their rules and beat them at their own game, so maybe I lose the battle and get an angry email from “big boy” William, but at the end of the day my email newsletter lands in your email inbox and you get to read all the news for that day.

Which of those two scenarios has the most wins?

I think you know where I stand.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

-Noah