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Re:Facebook's Trump ban upheld by Oversight Board, for now by koolba on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @11:05AM (#27050795)
> Isn't that just proving the point? Powerful figures should absolutely be more careful when using words like "fight" out of context because a certain percentage of people may very well misinterpret that as a call to violence. The platform evaluating it in a certain way doesn't change what the rest of the audience is going to evaluate it as.

No, no, no! The answer to idiots misinterpreting words literally isn't to dumb down our speech. That would be double plus ungood.

Re:Facebook's Trump ban upheld by Oversight Board, for now by kube-system on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @11:16AM (#27050961)
tact != dumbing down

If anything, it's the opposite.

Re:Facebook's Trump ban upheld by Oversight Board, for now by ds206 on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @11:49AM (#27051454)
It's too bad politicians don't have a way to express their policy views to everyone in as much detail as they need, spanning as many hours as it takes. Oh yeah, they do LOL.

I wonder how long it'll be until we have the first "big brother" politician that has web cams in their office and is transparent about every decision they've made?

Re:Facebook's Trump ban upheld by Oversight Board, for now by zxzax on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @12:06PM (#27051706)
>The answer to [less knowledgeable people] misinterpreting words literally isn't to [simplify] our speech.

Yes, it is? For the biggest example, Have you ever done child care? Kids may not understand whatever complex metaphor you're trying to use, they're not "idiots" for being that way, that's your responsibility as the adult to explain what you mean to them or use a simpler phrasing. Some kids may not even be ready for the explanation and you'll have to wait until they're older to use the complex phrasing. Yes it's unfortunate that for some this pattern continues into adulthood but they're also not "idiots" for being that way, not everyone can be an English major.