Comments by "Peter deWolf" (@StoneShards) on "Linguistics Are How You Win: Everyone Must Hear the Term "Moral Panic"" video.

  1. Trump just said people can figure out the truth themselves. He's perfectly correct! These censorship algorithms are admittedly inferior to actual human beings, but there's too much censoring to do to have people doing it--the machine is necessary, to avoid having to hire a million people. So, admittedly, people do a much better job than the machine. Why? It's because human beings can do things machines cannot, like reason. What's that? Good question. What is censorship-worthy speech? Good question, but do you expect a single answer? You won't get one. The effort to equip a machine algorithm to exercise human judgement is...just stupid. And this stupidity took little time to manifest, as erroneous algorithm results. This can't actually work as intended officially.
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  2. The lesson of Orwell's "1984": language controls thought. Eliminate a word from the language and you eliminate the possibility of formulating certain thoughts. Controlling the meaning of a word you control the character of communication using that word. Yes, you can turn the word game back on them, using the same technique. But a better approach: make them justify their language use; challenge their definitions AND illustrate how that definition contributes to an inaccurate impression. Redeem "semantics".
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