Google has launched a new ‘inclusive language’ tool which flags up un-woke words such as ‘landlord’ and ‘housewife’ and suggests politically correct alternatives. The Sun has more.
Google’s suggestions for alternatives to ‘landlord’ include ‘property owner’ or ‘proprietor’.
Others include changing ‘mankind’ to ‘humankind’, ‘policemen’ to ‘police officers’ and ‘housewife’ to ‘stay-at-home-spouse’. It even objects to ‘motherboard’, the tech term for a computer’s circuit board.
If a writer uses terms deemed un-PC by Google a message pops up that reads: “Inclusive warning. Some of these words may not be inclusive to all readers. Consider using different words.”
Silkie Carlo, of Big Brother Watch, called it “deeply intrusive”, adding: “Google is not only reading every word you type but telling you what to type.
“This speech-policing is profoundly clumsy, creepy and wrong, often reinforcing bias. Invasive tech like this undermines privacy, freedom of expression and increasingly freedom of thought.”
The Google Docs program, which includes the new warnings function, is initially being rolled out to certain business users and is turned on by default.
Google said: “Our technology is always improving and we don’t yet have a solution to identifying and mitigating all unwanted word associations and biases.”
The Times has written a longer piece about Google’s thought policing in which it points out that the new tool also suggests synonyms to help sentences flow better. For instance, if you use Martin Luther King’s phrase “the fierce urgency of now” it suggests “the intense urgency of now” instead.
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Sandy Brown and the Seven they-thems?
https://off-guardian.org/2023/08/18/is-this-the-real-reason-eris-cases-are-spiking/
“Eris” – or to give it its full title ‘Here we go again.’
Most people I know and speak to were fully bought into the covid narrative first time around. They never mention it now. Many other evils are doubtless being planned, but I think the covid horse is well and truly dead.
tof, I hope you are right about the C1984 horse being dead.
Tainted brand
I think they’d need to invent something new
Your wish is their command.
I hope they start trying to push this, and even hope they start trying to push masking and lockdown, because now more people understand what we on this website have understood all along and the push back will be full and strong and will prevail. It would be better to confront these people head-on now over another nothing-burger covid variant than wait for Pharma and the not so secret biolabs to cook-up a not-so-accidental release of something properly nasty.
Not forgetting that Jab-Junkies are more likely to get the latest ‘variant’ (yawn) and get it ‘good and hard’ than we pure bloods.
And the more Jib-jabs these Junkies have had, the gooder and harder they get it. So time to stand back and let Darwin prevail, as they rush to shoot up some more.
https://off-guardian.org/2023/08/18/inside-youtubes-new-medical-misinformation-policy/
YouTube and complete censorship. As Kit Knightly puts it:
“Reality is subject to the approval of the state, and the state is always right.”
Note to the Target CEO, those people who buy your stuff are customers not guests.