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Re:Reasons not to use (i.e., be used by) Facebook by kerkeslager on Sunday June 26, 2016 @03:34PM (#11982276)
In the same vein, Orwell's Politics and the English Language[1] is an earlier observation of similar phenomena.

[1] https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/orwell46.htm

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Re:Reasons not to use (i.e., be used by) Facebook by mathattack on Monday June 27, 2016 @07:49AM (#11985547)
I was just going to reference this. He was a master on the power of words, in both explaining it (as in your reference) and showing it in 1984 and Animal Farm.
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