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People have often and for decades got into trouble for "joking" about having a bomb in their bags at check-in, and we've always lamented the institutionalised s
by triplesec 13y ago
People have often and for decades got into trouble for "joking" about having a bomb in their bags at check-in, and we've always lamented the institutionalised stupidity of the drones behind the counter (and their dull bosses) for not realising that humans are mostly not very good at comedy.
However, this is another thing entirely, and reminds me of the practice in Nazi occupied terriroties of having loudspeakers in the street to control, order and relay propaganda to the restless occupied. I don't think Godwin's Law counts here either. This is a legitimate comparison.
- dasil003 13y agoGodwin's Law states nothing about the legitimacy of said comparison—it applies to literally every online discussion.
- triplesec 13y agoI do know this. Perhaps I should have used George Orwell's 1984 as the example instead, but I was still sleepy. I tried to find a film recording of these speakers, but the internets failed my quick search. The effect is extremely chilling, a disembodied voice ordering you in curt, menacing terms to follow orders. It is archetypically dystopian.
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- notahacker 13y agoOh come off it. This is an addition to an existing, very familiar category of loudspeaker announcements advising people that doing X might get them into trouble, where X has long been acknowledged to be a bad idea. You hear similar announcements in airports all over the world. Would you genuinely prefer they left the last line off the announcement and had more people being "not very good at comedy" as a result?
- DominikR 13y agoAll over the world? Really? I've never been directly threatened via loudspeaker announcement anywhere - other than in Half Life
- DanBC 13y ago> and reminds me of the practice in Nazi occupied terriroties of having loudspeakers in the street to control, order and relay propaganda to the restless occupied. I don't think Godwin's Law counts here either. This is a legitimate comparison. Comparing stupid, sub-optimal, broken security theatre to the propaganda efforts of a genocidal regime is, and there's no polite way to say this, fucking stupid.