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Re:OpenVoice: Versatile Instant Voice Cloning by haroldp on Monday January 01, 2024 @03:46PM (#38835181)
"Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it."
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Re:OpenVoice: Versatile Instant Voice Cloning by ben_w on Monday January 01, 2024 @04:24PM (#38835484)
Censorship by itself doesn't stop people thinking (or even expressing) forbidden thoughts, it stops a person's words reaching other people.

BNW had a similar effect by conditioning, rather than by applying the strong form of the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis.

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Re:OpenVoice: Versatile Instant Voice Cloning by haroldp on Tuesday January 02, 2024 @02:51PM (#38846210)
It's not perfectly isometric, but neither is it a stretch to call it orwellian.
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