lol! I'm going to have to think long and hard about what it says about the world in general because I don't know why you'd think I was censoring 'people' instead of assuming it was a typo.
I've noticed it's a bit of a thing on lemmy to censure words or names of things you're talking about. I've seen discord, blizzard, Twitter, and a couple other named of both companies and people censured either with an asterisk or leet speek. It's so weird. Maybe they don't want people from those companies to be able to Google their comment? Who knows.