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Yuval Noah Harari | flooding people with irrelevant information

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“In the past, censorship worked by blocking the flow of information. In the twenty-first century, censorship works by flooding people with irrelevant information. […] In ancient times having power meant having access to data. Today having power means knowing what to ignore.” Yuval Noah Harari (Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow) “In der Vergangenheit hat Zensur durch Abblocken des Informationsflusses gewirkt. Im 21.Jahrhundert wirkt Zensur durch die Flutung mit irrelevanten Informationen. So wissen die Leute nicht mehr, auf was sie sich eigentlich fokussieren sollen. Sie verschwenden ihre Zeit mit Recherchen…

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George Orwell | A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing

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“At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas which it is assumed all right-thinking people will accept without question. It is not exactly forbidden to state this or that or the other, but it is “not done”… Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing, either in the popular press or in the highbrow periodicals.” George Orwell “Zu jedem Zeitpunkt gibt es eine Orthodoxie, eine Reihe von Ideen, von denen man…

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Vince Ebert | Political correctness

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“Political correctness has now reached a level in our society that I see as highly questionable. It starts with the deletion of more and more postings in the social media. Postings, mind you, with content that is clearly not punishable or otherwise legally actionable. The mere fact that a certain group might feel offended by a text is enough. More and more companies and corporations are joining this unfortunate trend and issuing internal memos about required language rules or how to deal with certain topics, the disregard of which can…