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I'm Australian; my impression is that that kind of self-censorship (where you say the word but blank out some letters) is basically unheard-of here. Certainly, I'm nonplussed when Americans do it. Media does it when quoting people, but people don't do it to themselves.
There is a third option, actually, now that you draw my attention to it, which is that the pornography site where he posted his comment may have an automatic censor on the word "slut". (Note that putting an auto-censor on the word "rape" is cancel-bait because it hits "he raped me".)
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