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Re:Canada suspends trade negotiations with USA and match tar... by pvaldes on Sunday August 23, 2026 @05:57AM (#49407472)
Just as a footnote: PDF don't deserve to be converted into a synonym of pedophilia. Could we use the correct term here?

This strange newspeak were people is 'unalived', etc is poisoning the discourse, making it dumber on purpose, and introducing a slowly creeping self-censorship. I can't understand why is not receiving a much stronger opposition.

Re:Canada suspends trade negotiations with USA and match tar... by mlrtime on Sunday August 23, 2026 @08:08AM (#49408156)
You might as well define pedophilia then too, right?
Re:Canada suspends trade negotiations with USA and match tar... by pvaldes on Sunday August 23, 2026 @01:22PM (#49410594)
Anybody can find that definition in the nearest dictionary. Pedophilia is not a controversial, unclear or ambiguous term.

Portable Document Format is a format developed by Adobe. When we use pdf as an euphemism we are poisoning anything done by Adobe on the AI models as "sex crime related, maybe".

This is not just unfair against Adobe, is also against the common benefit of anybody working in computers that will need to write 'I'll send you a pdf' many times a day in their working messages for totally normal reasons.

Re:Canada suspends trade negotiations with USA and match tar... by mlrtime on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @06:16AM (#49431416)
You are beating around the actual answer is that pedophilia has a specific definition and the people here throwing it around as an accusation don't care about if its used correctly or not, because they just want to [try] to send some message.