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So it's a form of doublespeak?
by nowherebeen 6y ago
So it's a form of doublespeak?
- SpicyLemonZest 6y agoI don’t know that I’d call it doublespeak. There’s a lot to be said for defining a job in terms of what it’s trying to produce rather than what it’s trying to fight.
- nowherebeen 6y agoGot it
- yesitstrue2 6y agoIn principle, good point. In practice, it really depends on where your levels of cynicism are at. Crediting FB with wanting to "produce 'integrity'" or even that they're "trying to fight" the myriad of destructive externalities their money-geyser has spewed forth is.. generous.
- tsimionescu 6y agoI think the point is more that they are fighting click-spam and other kinds of advertising fraud, to maintain the integrity of their advertising platform, in the sense in which an antivirus is maintaining the integrity of your system; NOT the sense in which an anti-graft law is maintaining the integrity of a politician.
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- sorokod 6y agoLike a "Ministry of Peace" for war department?
- victorvation 6y agoWell, "Defence" would, as the intended product is not necessarily peace...
- sorokod 6y agoDefence, offense, it's really a matter of policy.
- andrei_says_ 6y agoAnd “Peace Officer” for police force trained to escalate.
- namdnay 6y agoI think doublespeak is when the two meanings are opposite, no? This sounds more like your standard corporate euphemism
- nowherebeen 6y agoFair enough
- wpietri 6y agoI can't find a definition like that. Wikipedia has it as "Doublespeak is language that deliberately obscures, disguises, distorts, or reverses the meaning of words." Which seems to fit perfectly for Facebook's behavior.
- pertymcpert 6y agoYou’re thinking of Doublethink from 1984.
- namdnay 6y agoAhhhh that's it, thanks!
- SilasX 6y agoI’d say doublespeak would be if “advertising integrity” were the department charged with respecting users’ privacy and (informed) choices, while said dept. executed Facebook’s policies that go very much against these things. But if parent is correct, the role is to enforce things users want (regarding spam/fraud/illegal goods), which matches standard notions of integrity, so it’s not doublespeak.