Crouching, terrified, ass covering, virtue signalling, messaging to their true believers
It's stunning to see both sides of the aisle piling on against big tech, albeit with different focus
My point exactly.
"Hate speech" is a marketing term.
That is, a new category that was invented for purpose of persuasion.
Marketers have long known that if you make up a term, you gain control over a market.
In this case the market is people's minds and belief system.
A flat file is unlike a relational database.
However I don't know what their data mining and machine learning and analysis capability consists of.
These days everybody calls analytical and machine learning software "AI". Familiar with the true definition of AI as it has been proposed in IEEE and scientific literature over the years, I take issue with the terminology.
Just pointing out that Zuck took great care to use the term repeatedly as an attribute of his company. Perhaps for marketing purpose, i.e. "Trust our sophistication"
Marketing making up new words. Automakers are into this.
E.g. there used to be automobiles, sedans, station wagons, buses (like VW bus). Also pickup trucks.
Then they invented Hatchbacks.
Then Sport-Utility Vehicles (SUVs).
And Mini-Trucks.
The company that wanted to create demand for a new category of vehicle invented the term to define something that they, alone, manufactured.
Then they spent a fortune on advertising to create mindshare and consumer desire for these new flavors of vehicle.
All the marketers do it, and have been doing it for a very long time.
[They] weaponize language against us.
Do we solve it by also inventing new terms?
Or by educating people to recognize when words are turned against them?
The education hasn't worked.
Let you in on a liddle secret. I joined the chans on Nov 4, 2017. Never did anything like this before. Saw instantly that it was necessary to have a decent repertoire of Pepes to be taken seriously. So went around assiduously collecting them from across the web. After I had enough, I felt secure to start posting. "Lurk moar"? I lurked for about 3 days.
Since then added many of course, in my regular duties collecting graphical content.
Yours are way cooler than mine tho. :-)
I was there part of the time. Then had to break away and regain my sanity. Trying to write a short article on Unpopular Truths. Maybe anons would like to collaborate on the article. I know what I want to say, but am not expressing it well enough. The text is still taking shape. It would get better with frens' input.
Here is a 528-word draft editorial. Feedback and improvements are invited.
UNPOPULAR TRUTHS
An Editorial by Anon
Philosophers have long debated whether there is such a thing as objective truth. Facts are observed by our senses or instruments. Yet human senses can be fooled, and instrumental measurements can be falsified by better instruments.
The American Heritage® Dictionary defines truth as "Conformity to fact or actuality." And it defines unpopular as "Lacking general approval or acceptance." So "unpopular truth" is a contradiction.
Let's say you are driving a car through an intersection when you see a child bicycle across. You MUST take evasive action to avoid a crash. There is no debate over truth, only a child, a vehicle, the potential for a dangerous collision, and hopefully enough time to swerve or brake. In this situation, people share a commonsense understanding of truth.
Or consider a hot stove. Children quickly learn not to touch, or suffer a burn. If this truth became "unpopular", would touching the hot stove suddenly become safe for believers? Obviously not.
So what is an "unpopular truth"? A fact that is disliked by the majority, to the point of rejection.
But truth is unaffected by popularity or unpopularity. We can't make sound judgments without a pool of true facts to reason about. Disliking a fact doesn't make it any less true. Rejecting facts is a characteristic of mental illness.
These days our culture is pervaded by lies that are promoted as true. Language is distorted beyond recognition to support new dogmas. We are told that "men" can have menstrual periods and bear children. That censorship of conservatives by Big Tech isn't censorship, if it serves the interest of globalists. That cross-dressing or surgery changes a person's sex. That burning down a federal courthouse is a peaceful demonstration. That corrupt and demented senior Joe Biden could run the country. That Islam is a religion of peace. And many believe.
Political correctness is a form of intellectual terrorism. Your language must conform to certain false dogmas, or you will be shamed.
But "hate speech" is merely speech that others hate. The First Amendment protects all speech (except for inciting acts of violence or endangering the masses with one's words.): "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances."
The political left and their laptop mainstream media parrot their globalist masters' script. Universities and businsses pander to the same ideology. Will incessant repetition gain acceptance for the lies, and unpopular truths be forgotten?
A splinter minority hopes to overrule the silent majority. And if we remain silent, they might. We are angry at being muzzled and demonized for speaking the truth. It is time to become vocal. Our Constitution empowers us with freedom of speech. We need to reject the lies and insist on the truth, in our private interactions and in all public discourse. We need to be loud.
In rejecting "unpopular truths", our society has become mentally ill. Truth is the only cure.
Thanks for feedback, frens.
I don't want to launch into my bottom-line belief that it's a satanic conspiracy to invert everything decent in their futile attempt to repudiate the Deity. But obviously that lurks underneath because it's what I believe.
Will revisit in the A.M. and again, thank you all.