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Question to the people who disapprove of this but who endorse the top down language policing as endorsed by Twitter Eng.: Why does this bother you and not that?
by lr4444lr 6y ago
Question to the people who disapprove of this but who endorse the top down language policing as endorsed by Twitter Eng.: Why does this bother you and not that?
- EliRivers 6y agoWhile I'm not them and can't answer for them, I wonder if they see a qualitative difference between a government who will come round to your house and vanish you from the face of the earth for saying things in private to your friends, and a private corporation not letting you use their tools.
- papeda 6y agoI'm not one of "the people who disapprove of this but who endorse the top down language policing as endorsed by Twitter ", but as far as I can tell, few of those people advocate banning books. I think "banning books" is a specific thing that is pretty well drilled into Western minds as something that evil totalitarian dystopian forces do, maybe because of Fahrenheit 451, 1984, and so on. Twitter, on the other hand, doesn't have any obvious cultural precedents for most people, so different policies for it don't set off the same cultural alarm bells.