Saturday, October 22, 2016
Winston's boss
Orwell focused on the drab daily life of 6079 Smith W, who loyally Rectified history and fed the Memory Hole. Just a dull job until he started to think. Orwell didn't spend nearly as much time on the people who designed the Memory Hole. Clearly they enjoyed their job immensely. They were passionate around the Memory Hole space.
Like these modern monsters.
“It doesn’t prevent you posting. It just suggests that the words you’re using could be construed as hateful,” said David Marsh, Head of Technology at UK-based nonprofit, International Alert, a peace building organization. The Chrome plugin analyzes text as it is being typed. If it recognizes a particular hate speech term, “it just flags it out to you,” explained Marsh in an interview. “It doesn’t stop you posting, but it suggests why that maybe a term that some people might not necessarily want to use online and how that could be construed as hate speech in that particular context.” ... In some instances, hate groups have argued that blocking their rhetoric violates their right to free speech. But Marsh stressed that International Alert is “very careful” to avoid engaging in censorship. “What we want to be very careful about is not closing down that space for people to debate things,”Could be construed as hate speech. Minitrue. Peace building organization. Minipax.
Labels: defenestration / depontication
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