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What does "unperson" mean?

• LegitShady 4y ago
  it comes from Orwell's 1984 - someone who has been removed from all records/books/photographs and killed. I don't think the kill part applies here.
• bigfudge 4y ago
  It’s lazy shorthand for “belatedly apply their policies against hate speech to prominent politicians”.
  • tomcam 4y ago
    Like PewDiePie, Azealia Banks, Babylon Bee, and Carpe Donktum? By the way, in the USA there is no legal support for the term hate speech. It is covered under the umbrella of the first amendment.
    • bigfudge 4y ago
      No, pewdiepie was banned for five minutes for saying he was going to join isis. He’s still on the site but doesn’t tweet. https://mobile.twitter.com/pewdiepie https://mobile.twitter.com/pewdiepie Hate speech doesn’t need legal protection as a term to be against the rules of the site. I can’t remember if that’s the actual term twitter uses, but it’s the spirit of their rules. We could have a wider debate about whether our public square should be privately owned (I don’t think it should) but that wasn’t your point. Edit: more details and reason why his tweets are (self)deleted https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-37244296 https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-37244296
      • tomcam 4y ago
        I brought up the first amendment because Elon has pretty much said that that is how they will decide on what continent gets published. I never came close to saying they don’t have the right to restrict speech anyway they wish
        • tomcam 4y ago
          * content not continent. Apparently I am suffering from literary incontinence