Posted on 01/20/2022 4:58:28 AM PST by Kaslin
Big Tech’s push to censor speech and content has reached a new level in weirdness. Microsoft, which controls 89 percent of the productivity software market, has slipped into its operating system a bizarre spellchecker which notifies users when they are using words outside of the ‘approved’ language of the far-left radicals.
Microsoft’s spellchecker flags words that might be offensive in the following ways:
Age bias
Cultural bias
Ethnic slurs
Gender bias
Gender specific language
Racial bias
Sexual orientation bias
According to the tech writers at Gizmodo examples include changing “blacklist” and “whitelist” to “accepted” or “allowed list,” and swapping the gender-specific “postman” with “postal worker.” Similarly, “humanity” or “humankind” is recommended over “mankind,” and “expert” is suggested when the software flags “master,” a term linked with slavery. Other examples include, using “mail carrier” or “postal worker” instead of “postman,” “dance performer” instead of “show girl,” “lover” instead of “mistress,” and instead of “heroine,” “hero.”
It would be absurd for Microsoft to change Neil Armstrong’s quote when he set foot on the moon from "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind," to “That’s one small step for a person, one giant leap for humankind.”
Most of Microsoft’s 400 million users probably have no idea this software is a part of their operating system because currently users must opt into the new spellchecker, rather than opt out of it. But the day may come when the default mode will be that it is automatically installed, and a user can opt out and from there Microsoft could easily make it a permanent fixture which cannot be removed.
George Orwell predicted the day would come when governments would use language to control society. Microsoft’s new software is a step toward that dystopian reality.
Political correctness has now gotten into our keyboards, our computers, and our phones.
Biotech entrepreneur and author of Woke, Inc.: Inside Corporate America's Social Justice Scam, Vivek Ramaswamy recently told Fox News that this “is a mechanism of mind control.”
“It's another example of the power that these tech titans have to control the entire mind of a society,” Ramaswamy explained. “And I think the fact that they're using it to advance this political agenda is something that we've got to see through.”
If the Senate is going to address the monopoly role that big tech plays in controlling information dissemination, then it certainly should include the company that dominates the workplace software productivity market. This becomes even more acutely clear as Microsoft has put the tool in place to force feed political correctness onto every blank page through their politically correct language tool. A tool that is both frightening and dangerous that can be turned on during the next update without a user’s knowledge.
Niggardly?
“Gender specific language”!
yup, as they are as stingy as can be.
The spell checker on this here Fire tablet is most certainly biased. The rate of change seems to be accelerating.
Nugatory?
I understand that like the insipid paperclip and dumb dog in past versions, it can be turned off.
Well, my PC is Linux Mint, so I guess Microsoft has no say.
fisherman >> fisherperson
fireman >> fireperson
This seems to undermine the premise of the article.
Per the article, it is off by default. It has to be turned on.
Either way, no one has to use it.
Yes, it seems to me Microsoft is offering an optional feature that at least some of its customers would find useful. How dare they.
1984, but with much better technology.
Yet another reason I do not own or subscribe to any MicroSatan products and never will.
“Per the article, it is off by default. It has to be turned on.”
For now.
In the meantime, it will be noted and recorded who leaves it off.
Windows ping
As a writer, this should make my next project interesting…
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