I don't see people writing a blog post as being abusive if they are not targeting a person and calling them an idiot or defaming them. You can be abusive without using any profanity. In fact I can do a far better job of calling a person a name and belittling them without profanity than I can with it. It simply takes a little effort. My post doing such though would still be hostile and abusive.
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There has been the occasional post that I've come across that I would term as using excessive foul language, those usually fall under attacks on other users or groups. I agree it's not abusive for users to write anything they want in their own posts or blog as long as there's no attack on a person or group.
I was thinking more about those taking offense to being asked to refrain from excessive foul language in comments. This is what I consider part of being a "toxic" individual as they don't respect other users or the user's blogs. I don't see this as a particularly large issue on steemit.com currently. There have been a few individuals that have 'tested' the waters so to speak.
A user visits a blog and uses foul language to express their opinion on the topic of the post in comments, or they post offensive memes relevant to the posts topic. I think asking other users to respect each other's blogs is not unreasonable nor is it censorship.
This is just a random thought I had from reading your comment. Someone I used to know, said that he got a lot of joy out of formulating responses that called another person who was verbally abusive an idiot without them even realizing it.