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Newspeak: "In the 1949 dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (also published as 1984), by George Orwell, Newspeak is the fictional language of Oceania, a totalitarian superstate. To meet the ideological requirements of Ingsoc (English Socialism) in Oceania, the Party created Newspeak, which is a controlled language of simplified grammar and limited vocabulary designed to reduce a person's ability to think critically."
See also: "the officer's gun discharged" instead of "police shot the man"
I remember thinking this aspect of the book was far fetched, but holy shit was he spot on. Language really does inform how we think, and controlling that can be very powerful
Oh boy… are you opening the door to concept philosophy? Because that’s a fucking mind bender. First big assumption you need to let go of in this domain: mankind is not on some path of iterative progress where we find ourselves at the most knowledgeable and capable in the present. Rather, we’ve conveniently redefined what progress is in the first place.
I always thought Winston's job, of literally rewriting history, would be an impossible task.
Nowadays? I'm not so sure. When we look at where most of the news comes from in America and follow the money up, you've got like 90% of it coming from about a couple dozen people.
Some of those people control LLMs along the way. They control our social media and search engine and what posts and answers and advertisers we see. They control the servers through which most of the internet routes their traffic. They control the certificate authorities that all of our web browsers intrinsically trust. And most of them are friends with each other...or at least keep it cordial.
And they're patient. They play a long game. Half of them aren't even middle-aged and are in peak physical health.
Shit even that sounded like a crazy conspiracy theory like 15 years ago, and while I'm being hyperbolic...I'm really not being that hyperbolic.
I always thought Winston's job, of literally rewriting history, would be an impossible task.
They already are getting rid of the history of slavery. Banning it from schools, museums, etc.
They also murdered about 80 people when they kidnapped and trafficked them.
It's not a "war", it's a "special operation". Anyone who says it's a war is committing treason.
This was literally the header of the New York times on Sunday...
BBC bans journalists from telling the truth?
It's so unprecedented!
/s
~~Kidnapping is an emotionally loaded term which isn't used in journalism. Makes sense.~~ Edit: nah I'm wrong. They'd use it for the actual crime of kidnapping.
I hate this shit. We need media to call a spoon a spoon.
Call lies, lies. "Misinformation", "inaccuracies" "incorrectly said..." Nah fuck that. Trump lied.
BBC is appeasing Trump. The UK is a lost cause. An Irrelevant ex-empire. Just like the US is going to be, once it finally implodes.
"Abducted" it is then.
Abducted, then
The BBC is no longer reputable
It stopped being reputable after the Iraq invasion in 2003. The Blair government stuffed it with loyalist apparatchiks to make sure the government line was never seriously questioned. This has been the case ever since.
Clearly, they should refer to it as "human trafficking" instead!
Question : I break into someones home and take them to my home (from their bed) and lock them up. What's that called?
It depends. What’s your net worth?
Depends on who's writing history.
honestly, if the police does it with a warrant in their own country it's certainly not called a kidnapping.
Halfway down was a quote from the working-class-LARPer fascist, Stephen yaxley-lennon, that he's called for trump to invade the UK.
Unrelated, I'm pretty sure treason is the only thing we still have the death penalty for...
I'll allow it, as long as they call it a war crime.
so much for that alleged freedom of the press
Hardly surprising considering the BBC is a british establishment mouthpiece and said establishment is subordinate to the americans.
BBC is propaganda for the Empire.
So BBC, while on the cusp of censorship for "defamation of Trump", still sees it necessary to watch his arse?
These bootlickers man
Isn't BBC a British company? Why do they fear lawsuits in the USA?
That dickhead in the Oval Office and his cronies have buildings full of lawyers who'll then launch trucks full of SLAPP suits. Couple with their usual OANN attack dogs.
I have no idea what these acronyms mean but I agree with this guy
SLAPP are nuisance lawsuits without merit filed solely to bully the recipient into submission and OANN is One American News Network, a hive of fascist Trump loving propagandists pretending to be news.
Change "BBC" to "Global Media" and you are closer to the truth.
British Biased Corporation
Well, kidnapping implies he will be used for ransom and returned. He was abducted.
Can they say they abducted him?
More billionaire media control. It's everywhere I tell 'ya!
Possibly. But the BBC aired a pretty good segment on Trump and he sued BBC for $5bn. So, that's most likely why they're being careful going forward now.
In what way is this not control? He has succeeded in changing the editorial position of the BBC.
BBC Has Fallen is Gerard Butlers next movie