Re:Gab has been hacked and 70GB of data leaked
by bawolff on Tuesday March 02, 2021 @02:47AM
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The "western world" as a term is understood to mean Australia, Canada, Catholic and Protestant Europe, New Zealand, plus the United States [definition from wikipedia]. Not saying that isn't silly, but everyone understands that the western world does not include those other places.
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Re:Gab has been hacked and 70GB of data leaked
by naniwaduni on Tuesday March 02, 2021 @02:59AM
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It's a rhetorical bait-and-switch. It is "understood" to mean (essentially) Protestant Europe when making strong claims, but gesturing at the broader notion of West to imply a scale larger than that at which the claim is credible. In any case, even "Australia, Canada, Catholic and Protestant Europe, New Zealand, plus the United States" is too broad of a definition to make GP's claim true.