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It's extremely difficult, and as I said it will be easily abused by any government which is looking to manufacture consent among its population. One person's d
by Dig1t 2mo ago
It's extremely difficult, and as I said it will be easily abused by any government which is looking to manufacture consent among its population.
One person's definition of harm is completely different than another person's.
>The argument that words can harm has also been used to justify institutional efforts to prohibit certain language. In 2022, the Stanford University IT department launched a program entitled the “Elimination of Harmful Language Initiative,” which proposed removing from Stanford's websites a set of words considered to be biased or discriminatory, including “blind review,” “handicap parking,” “OCD,” “victim,” “immigrant,” and “American”
>https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191886926001492 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S019188692...
What happens when we get an administration that decides a platform which allows "discriminatory" language should be punished via this new "oversight" mechanism?
- kelseyfrog 2mo ago> Three in five Americans favor stronger oversight > by any government which is looking to manufacture consent among its population. With all due respect, the consent has already been manufactured. We already enforce rules with far less public support. The most simple explanation is that you and the public don't share the same political goals and you're in the minority. That doesn't mean that they're right and you're wrong. It means that the tension that you're attempting to illustrate doesn't broadly exist.