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"For your protection." The most abused and dishonest phrase of the 21st century.
by queuebert 5y ago
"For your protection."
The most abused and dishonest phrase of the 21st century.
- kwertyoowiyop 5y agoThey always add that incorrect “y”.
- ElFitz 5y agoAlong with "For your own safety".
- whoooooo123 5y ago"safety" is a term that's been abused since at least 1793: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committee_of_Public_Safety https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committee_of_Public_Safety
- ElFitz 5y agoThe translation is inaccurate. It means safety in the same way as the salvation of the soul for Christians, but in a non-religious way, and applied to all of society. Yes, they were both quite grandiose in their wordings and full of themselves. Safety, as it is commonly used, would better be translated, in French, as "sûreté". "Salut" would be a much, much stronger word. Although I do see your point.
- whoooooo123 5y agoWell damn, that ruins one of my favourite points. But I'm still not quite sure what the French word "salut" means. Is there not a simple one-word English translation? What exactly is the remit implied by the name Comité de salut public?
- kubanczyk 5y ago"Salut" in this context translates as "salvation" in the sense of "preservation or deliverance from harm, ruin, or loss".
- ElFitz 5y agoExactly. "Committee of Public Salvation". Sounds weird. So, in this case, considering they considered themselves the defenders of the greatest ideology of all time and the (worthy) people, and were at war with both foreign countries and some of their own people, I’d say it'd mean something like: "Committee in charge of delivering the country, the Republic (the idea of Republic itself; not just it’s French incarnation) and freedom / democracy (even though they weren’t quite democratic) from utter ruin and certain doom" But that’s quite a mouthful.
- bryanrasmussen 5y agouh, 'to protect the children' would like to have a word.
- bookofjoe 5y agoWait — you mean "Sanitized for your protection" on glasses at cheap motels isn't true?
- meowster 5y agoI think it stopped being true at the word, "Sanitized".
- kabdib 5y ago"For purposes of National Security . . .", a close second.
- MikeDelta 5y agoNext to: 'no need to worry about privacy if you've got nothing to hide'.
- npteljes 5y agoRight there with "for us to deliver better user experience"
- dredmorbius 5y agoTwitter's users are its advertisers. Tiwtter's product is you.
- queuebert 5y agoAn important finesse.
- npteljes 5y agoWe criticize free services all the time for this, but I think that paying users are monetized all the same. Using American examples, the DMV sells data, internet providers are selling user data, credit card companies are selling user data... so it's not like any other companies don't monetize their users in other ways.
- dredmorbius 5y agoThis is true. Paid services also tend to parasitise their legitimate users and maximise revenues. A key difference is that in the Twitter case, there's no monetary penalty which can be imposed by the host class (that is, the unpaied content contributors). Much of the "harvest as much data as possible" element is also driven by fundamental power and monopolistic differences.
- povik 5y agoAlso at top of the list: “We care about your privacy” (and not that we are required by law to give you these options that follow)
- JadeNB 5y ago> The most abused and dishonest phrase of the 21st century. The T&C equivalent of "your call is very important to us"?
- meowster 5y agoRight before "We are experiencing higher than usual call volumes."