Re:Facebook Incubated the Insurrection
by Bakary on Thursday January 14, 2021 @11:23AM
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I think the term Orwellian should be used carefully not because of a strategy to censor people but because it tends to accompany and be a symptom of sloppy, armchair thinking that leads to fruitless fights on social media. (similar to Godwin's law)
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Re:Facebook Incubated the Insurrection
by ransom1538 on Thursday January 14, 2021 @11:27AM
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"because it tends to accompany and be a symptom of sloppy, armchair thinking that leads to fruitless fights on social media"
Exactly we need an elite social group to determine what is Orwellian.
That's not the point I'm making. I'm saying that as an individual it's a probably a good idea to avoid constructing arguments out of prepackaged notions. Whatever "elites" do isn't the factor I am considering here, especially not NY Times pundits or their equivalent. YMMV