News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Trust-Busting as the Unsexy Answer to Google and Facebook. Parent comment

Re:Trust-Busting as the Unsexy Answer to Google and Facebook by stale2002 on Friday October 15, 2021 @11:12PM (#28885244)
> mean something different than what it means.

Literally this is semantics. Literally, you are arguing about the definition of a word. So yes, by definition, you are quit literally arguing about what a word means, which is semantics.

That's what the word "semantics" means.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Trust-Busting as the Unsexy Answer to Google and Facebook by sanderjd on Saturday October 16, 2021 @11:09AM (#28888372)
This is fair enough, but by saying "you're just arguing semantics", the implication is that it does not matter what words are used and what they mean. And I described why I do think it matters (in summary: the use of the word monopoly for this argument really does confuse people about what the problem is). So I'm debating semantics, yep, but in my view, I'm not just debating semantics.
[ Parent | on HN ]