Thank you, I wasn’t aware of this term!

https://lemmy.ca/comment/15035910

That’s a good point! I’ve always heard it referred to as newspeak, but there is indeed a small but important distinction between the two.

The end result is similar, but the way there is the opposite (blocking vs enforcing)

I think comparing it to newspeak is still a good warning however, as they are caused by similar pressures applied in different ways, but algospeak is the more accurate term.

What you’re referring to is a recent trend of social media platforms enforcing a wordlist ban, causing people to resort to using “newspeak”, coined from the book 1984.

Newspeak was a language where negative words were not allowed. You can literally see it on platforms like TikTok, where people say “unalive” instead of “kill”, “seggs” instead of “sex”, or “oui’d” instead of “weed”.

Aren’t PDFs compressed? Doesn’t that mean we could turn a PDF into a ZIP bomb?

2g1c & 1m1j

!shrinkflation@lemmy.ca

You mean Google, the company who happily “bent the knee” and renamed the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America?

I don’t think any of us have sufficient context from this picture to derive any intent.

You derive a lot of information from a single picture.

There’s audio, this is real-time.

You can also see the vehicles in the background.