• Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
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    17 hours ago

    i donā€™t think newspeak is a good term for it, that implies an authority is forcing specific language onto people to limit their communications

    whatā€™s happening is the precise opposite, people are inventing new language to keep communicating the same things despite being censored, itā€™s the exact same thing that happened in hong kong with the chinese censorship.

    • setVeryLoud(true);@lemmy.ca
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      11 hours ago

      Thatā€™s a good point! Iā€™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.