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ELI5: Why is (speaking) censoring done with a beep in most cases

why not just mute the sound? I've seen both kinds of censoring and I dunno why there are different systems.
gpt
Bleep censoring was the best way to edit material in the early days of television. Sound editing after the video had been shot was essentially out of the question. Bleeping started as just covering up whatever profanity was spoken. As time went on though, you could actually edit the sound of a video. How censoring works depends on the tv channel that is airing it. The FCC does not have a rule that everything must use one form of censoring, only that certain material cannot be shown/spoken. Hope that helps.