Comment on no monetization, you said a bad word
yamanii@lemmy.world 8 months ago
For real, this algorithm is making people talk in a funny way to discuss anything, I cringe whenever someone has to say “unalive” or the video goes to the bottom of the feed.
pkill@programming.dev 8 months ago
Fucking newspeak. Corporate media must die
orrk@lemmy.world 8 months ago
it’s not newspeak, it might be euphemisms but the meaning of what is being said is alive and well, the major hallmark of newspeak is to limit the ability to convey ideas via conversation
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Slowly constricting the number of words that can be publicly spoken does work us toward that end. Folks who think they’re cleverly sidestepping the latest hurdle are only getting corralled deeper into the pen.
stingpie@lemmy.world 8 months ago
To be precise, newspeak does function by a direct reduction of vocabulary. Instead, newspeak works by expanding the number of meanings a single word can have, so that every sentence can be interpreted as supportive of the party, and the ‘grammatically correct’ meaning of the sentence is the supportive interpretation.
The closest approximation of newspeak in English is the sentence “That didn’t work, did it?” If you respond “Yes,” that can be interpreted as “Yes, you are correct, that didn’t work.” And if you reply “No,” that can’t be interpreted as “No, that didn’t work.”
Cort@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Oz response: nah, yeah it worked mate
NoSpiritAnimal@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Ok, so like how it limits the ability to convey ideas via conversation then?
DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 8 months ago
Adapting language to bypass censorship is very much not Newspeak.