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Re:Ask HN: To what extent does “shadow suppression” occur on... by orwin on Sunday August 29, 2021 @04:11AM (#28345035)
It's a cultural thing (if you meant that "Correct Thought" was different depending on the platform). I'm pretty ure this came from the US, and to be more precise, from McCarthyism, and bled through the cultural dominance to other western countries.
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Re:Ask HN: To what extent does “shadow suppression” occur on... by smitty1e on Sunday August 29, 2021 @06:39AM (#28345676)
Actually "Correct Thought" is a Gene Wolfe reference =>

> Although Ascian is their mother tongue, adult Ascians don't understand plain Ascian sentences, unless they are direct quotations from governmental propaganda materials (called Correct Thought). So, in order to communicate, an Ascian has to know by heart thousands of these quotations (sentences) on many different topics.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascian_language

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