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I find it weird when press call what are basically kids playing toy helicopters 'drone operators'[1]. They are definitely playing on the negative connotations h
by treerock 12y ago
I find it weird when press call what are basically kids playing toy helicopters 'drone operators'[1]. They are definitely playing on the negative connotations have with the word 'drone' which, as you point out, is closely associated with the military.
1: http://onforb.es/1matUzZ http://onforb.es/1matUzZ
- baddox 12y agoI obviously don't approve of blatant attempts to conflate toys with military aircraft, but that has little to do with the word "drone." The military "drones" aren't even officially called that. The reason we call military remote controlled aircraft "drones" isn't that they shoot missiles and kill people. It's because they are unmanned aircraft. We don't call manned military aircraft "drones," and they also kill people.