hh on Nostr: To me, this is particularly important. Euphemisms are an unnoticed source of evil and ...
To me, this is particularly important. Euphemisms are an unnoticed source of evil and their effects on discourse and eventually culture and politics can sometimes be massive.
For instance, the euphemism "gender" for "sex", which causes all sorts of ridiculous and harmful controversies, like the one about women and transsexuals in sports. Or more specific to the US, the euphemism "ethnicity" for "race", which holds even less water than the previous one.
For instance, the euphemism "gender" for "sex", which causes all sorts of ridiculous and harmful controversies, like the one about women and transsexuals in sports. Or more specific to the US, the euphemism "ethnicity" for "race", which holds even less water than the previous one.
quoting note142p…e22lAnother thing that Nostr will ultimately solve or improve:
The terrible phenomena of euphemisms (un-alive instead of dead), deliberate mispronunciations (corn instead of porn) or explicit spelling (S.E.X. istead of sex), to avoid moderation/algorithm implications.
It is horrible, because most of the times it is not to undermine anything, it is just trying to avoid stupid consequences while the words are used ’innocently’. It is not just sex stuff, but also COVID or whatever. Stupid games where people are fighting the machine that judges them, that can’t tell context (well enough) to figure out if anything ‘problematic’ is even going on on the one hand; and stupid blanketed moderation policies that are obvious ‘one size fits no-one’ tragedies on the other.
We need Nostr’s freedom of association for so many reasons, the current web is awful.