• TheDankHold@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    The term “ungood” also lets you talk about bad things but that doesn’t make it not newspeak. The corporate sanitizing and infantilizing of speech is not a good thing. It’s not the teen’s problem though, it’s the corporations and their desire for a sanitized public square they can plaster ads over.

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      1 year ago

      Yes, exactly. The problem is corporate sanitization not the adapted language norms by teens.

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      Ungood was given by the state. This is stuff people are coming up with in defiance of the state/corporation/censorer. That distinction matters, I think.