The Death of Free Speech: Uber PC'ism-A further look

[Cire]

lol


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[BIG APPLE CAT]

What’s wrong with him?

He’s got a message for woke moralists like you ‘stone…

UP YOURS!

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Did reading the list traumatize pwood to where he’s taking some time off?

https://twitter.com/willblakely3/status/1623821708829270017

[MakeItRain]

I downloaded the crap out of that list and it is hilarious

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Spiceless girls.

[MakeItRain]

Coke Rabbits
Unseasoned Chicken

[Skipper44]

mayosapiens is pretty good

[Dugout DickStone]

mayosapiens is pretty good

ha, that took me a minute but I just got it

[Rage Against the McKee]

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1626533667408596992

[Spracne]

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1626533667408596992

Lol at this meaningless platitude. I guess I'm not the target audience, because I can't figure out what he's trying to say.

[Rage Against the McKee]

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1626533667408596992

Lol at this meaningless platitude. I guess I'm not the target audience, because I can't figure out what he's trying to say.

He's saying that conservatives should make their own AI just like they made their own Twitter.

[LickNeckey]

he wants an AI that says stuff conservatives would agree with

he clearly is not aware of daxbot

[Spracne]

daxbot reads and distills Revolver so you don't have to!

[Dugout DickStone]

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1626533667408596992

Lol at this meaningless platitude. I guess I'm not the target audience, because I can't figure out what he's trying to say.

he is saying please look at me

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https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1626533667408596992

Lol at this meaningless platitude. I guess I'm not the target audience, because I can't figure out what he's trying to say.

He's saying that conservatives should make their own AI just like they made their own Twitter.

And literally the only difference in both is their acceptance of racial slurs.

[DQ12]

https://www.npr.org/2023/02/21/1158347261/roald-dahl-books-changed-offensive-words

Getting this thread back on topic.  Augustus Gloop, the gluttonous boy who drowned in a river of chocolate, will no longer be called "fat." 

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Looks like the change was from “fat” to “enormous.” Frankly seems less an issue of being PC and more recognizing the fact that there’s layers of fat.

[Rage Against the McKee]

Looks like the change was from “fat” to “enormous.” Frankly seems less an issue of being PC and more recognizing the fact that there’s layers of fat.

The issue is that the author is dead and changing his words just isn't right.

[catastrophe]

Counterpoint: he doesn’t give a crap on account of being dead

[DQ12]

Looks like the change was from “fat” to “enormous.” Frankly seems less an issue of being PC and more recognizing the fact that there’s layers of fat.

i think the prior term was "enormously fat" and they changed it to "enormous." 

[Spracne]

Counterpoint: he doesn’t give a crap on account of being dead

This got a chuckle from me, because it's true. But counter-counterpoint: in Augustus Gloop's homeland of Germany, you can be sued for insulting the memory of the dead.

[DQ12]

i can't pretend to care all that much about roald dahl or the particular verbiage of his work.  i don't really care if augustus gloop is fat or just enormous. 

but the whole concept seems weird to me.  in roald dahl's story, the one he wrote, gloop WAS fat.  he wasn't just big.  he was a big fatso.  a fatty fat fat, as it were.  if you can't handle that (fictional) reality, then maybe his seminal work isn't one you should read.

[CHONGS]

Looks like the change was from “fat” to “enormous.” Frankly seems less an issue of being PC and more recognizing the fact that there’s layers of fat.

The issue is that the author is dead and changing his words just isn't right.

The owners of the copyrights decided they wanted to make a change.  It's well within their rights to do so.

[Rage Against the McKee]

Looks like the change was from “fat” to “enormous.” Frankly seems less an issue of being PC and more recognizing the fact that there’s layers of fat.

The issue is that the author is dead and changing his words just isn't right.

The owners of the copyrights decided they wanted to make a change.  It's well within their rights to do so.

It's within their rights, but it isn't right.

[catastrophe]

Looks like the change was from “fat” to “enormous.” Frankly seems less an issue of being PC and more recognizing the fact that there’s layers of fat.

The issue is that the author is dead and changing his words just isn't right.

The owners of the copyrights decided they wanted to make a change.  It's well within their rights to do so.

It's within their rights, but it isn't right.

To me this is in the vein of all the Lucas Star Wars remaster stuff. I get that it’s unsettling to people that even great art can be tampered with by its rightful holder, but it can be, and there’s really no moral obligation for the art holder to refrain from doing so.