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from the remind-us-to-unpublish-our-blog-urls dept.
Ars reports on the most recent blogger death in Bangladesh:
Assailants with cleavers and machetes on Tuesday killed another blogger in Bangladesh, the third blogger in that country murdered in as many months, the Committee to Protect Journalists said. Another blogger killed in Bangladesh earlier this year used Facebook as his medium, the committee said.
The committee said that Ananta Bijoy Das, who wrote about science and railed against religious fundamentalism, was killed Tuesday by four masked men in the northeastern city of Sylhet in broad daylight.
The death of Das brings to at least 20 the number of writers murdered globally this year, according to CPJ statistics. Bangladesh is ranked 13th globally with at least 16 killed since 1992.
An American blogger (of Bangladeshi origin) was an earlier victim this year.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday May 14 2015, @01:13AM
Semantic overload on "hacking".
Before jumping in with "get over it", consider a bit the... well... language hacking used (on purpose) as a political tool as mentioned in Orwell's 1984.
While I do get it we aren't (yet?) at the stage of vocabulary reduction as a political tool, it may be there's no need for imposition: seems that we are pretty good in doing it onto ourselves.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 14 2015, @01:26AM
It's currently something different but similar. Rapidly construct a new vocabulary of terms and then shift which ones are appropriate to say and which ones aren't, all the while, gravitating toward the longer and more awkward to say ones.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 14 2015, @05:56AM
Got that, shifting in progress!
Terrorist... Terrorist terrorist terrorist, terrorist thinkofthechildren SJW!!!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 14 2015, @01:29AM
To further elaborate, it's very hard to delete a word from a persons vocabulary once it's put there in place. That becomes a generational thing.
You create a sense of stigma and shame around a word though, and once the right people latch on, it starts spreading rapidly.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 14 2015, @02:24AM
I think you need to remember better. We've always been hacking at Eastasia.
(Score: 2, Troll) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Thursday May 14 2015, @04:31AM
1984 was an extreme example, of what he really meant to defeat, fascist and communist propaganda.
It is important to say what you really mean. It can be difficult to do so. It's easier in writing, if you spend some time away from your written work then come back to edit it. It's quite difficult to say what you really mean when speaking.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 14 2015, @06:24AM
You can either get over it or keep fruitlessly trying to enforce the original meaning, too few people care enough to make a dent in the minds of society. The allusion to 1984 is inappropriate through, the corruption of the meaning was not sinister, and you aren't being prevented from discussing the original concept.