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Re:Imgur Updates TOS, Banning NSFW Content by mejutoco on Thursday April 20, 2023 @06:24AM (#35638174)
OP is probably confusing it with "Manufacturing consent", a book by Noam Chomsky.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_Consent

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Re:Imgur Updates TOS, Banning NSFW Content by pclmulqdq on Thursday April 20, 2023 @08:20AM (#35638870)
Adapting it. "Manufacturing consent" is a good book on the phenomenon, but sounds kind of odd (given how we use the word "consent" today).
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Re:Imgur Updates TOS, Banning NSFW Content by mejutoco on Thursday April 20, 2023 @09:15AM (#35639446)
The word consent can be used in many contexts, not only sexual. I see nothing odd about it.

Consensus is a different meaning. Going by how odd "a consensus" sounds I would simply assume the writer mixed both or misremembered, and I do not read further intent. Just my opinion.

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Re:Imgur Updates TOS, Banning NSFW Content by pclmulqdq on Thursday April 20, 2023 @10:19AM (#35640389)
Oh, I was the OP you are responding to. I don't like the words "manufacturing consent" to refer to astroturfing (Chomsky's book talks a lot more about propaganda as a tool of "top-down" media rather than "bottom-up" media) and neither do a lot of other people who talk about the phenomenon.

See also: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300251234/manufacturing-...

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Re:Imgur Updates TOS, Banning NSFW Content by mejutoco on Thursday April 20, 2023 @11:44AM (#35641841)
Oh. In that case I must admit you know better what you intended to say :P
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