Posted on 12/06/2021 11:56:31 PM PST by Eleutheria5
The “Think Good” campaign to change online discourse, initiated by President Isaac Herzog and Meta (formerly Facebook) in Israel, went online on Tuesday morning.
As part of the initiative, dozens of celebrities and public figures in Israel will share video clips of themselves reading the most hurtful responses that they have received online, with the offensive words censored and overlaid with words of positive reinforcement. The purpose of the initiative is to expose to millions of followers the difficulty of reading nasty replies, to encourage people to think twice before using hurtful language, and to think positive thoughts before hitting “reply.”
This one-of-a-kind campaign will reveal the most vulgar and hurtful replies received by public figures, who will publicly reveal to their millions of followers the tremendous power of words—words that can still hurt content creators with hundreds of thousands of followers, as well as ministers and members of Knesset confronting daily criticism....
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Regards,
“Think Good” = Goodthink. A Newspeak term from Nineteen Eighty-Four.
Looks like Meta is letting us know the name of their instruction manual . . .
Thank you from saving me the effort of looking that up. I went cold when I read it.
Liberals are astonishing in their ignorance. I remember a Democrat in a senate speech in support of some tax policy landing his big slogan on a tax policy, it was, “Stand and deliver!” The senate erupted in laughter. You could see how confused he was. (Stand and deliver was what highwaymen said when they stopped your coach for a robbery.)
Just changing their name to Meta is a prime example of Newspeak. Same game, different name. It’s still Facebook and it’s still evil.
Reminds me of when the Number 2 Train used to go through Crown heights until New Lots Avenue, and it was all dilapidated, graffiti-filled cars in which muggers and panhandlers reigned free. Then they redirected the Number 2 to Flatbush Avenue until Brooklyn College, and all the complaints disappeared about that line, and instead the Number 3 line went through Crown Heights until New Lots!
Hey.. at least they are not going to tell us how to think. When facebook gets to decide what is good.
Think what we say is good.
Tov mayod. Very good.
“Because Badthought is ungood...”
Unbad thought, gooooood.
It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words. Of course the great wastage is in the verbs and adjectives, but there are hundreds of nouns that can be got rid of as well. It isn’t only the synonyms; there are also the antonyms. After all, what justification is there for a word which is simply the opposite of some other word? A word contains its opposite in itself. Take “good”, for instance. If you have a word like “good”, what need is there for a word like “bad”? “Ungood” will do just as well — better, because it’s an exact opposite, which the other is not. Or again, if you want a stronger version of “good”, what sense is there in having a whole string of vague useless words like “excellent” and “splendid” and all the rest of them? “Plusgood” covers the meaning, or “doubleplusgood” if you want something stronger still. Of course we use those forms already, but in the final version of Newspeak there’ll be nothing else. In the end the whole notion of goodness and badness will be covered by only six words — in reality, only one word. Don’t you see the beauty of that, Winston? It was B.B.’s idea originally, of course. …Just to illustrate the kind of thinking that Meta is exhibiting presently.
— Syme, 1984
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