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| MK14:
--- Quote from: Nominal Animal on July 29, 2020, 08:08:55 pm ---;D That's exactly what makes this a neverending swamp. I'd love for those who have better terms just start using them, showing a good example, instead of "you stop using these terms, or we ban you, and ruin your life". (I definitely believe having ones contributions discarded or ignored because of technically correct but socially insensitive terms, banning and ruining ones life.) Even though we ostensibly live in an information society, all the bulk channels ("mainstream media") seem to have strict filters on things they let pass through. I miss the times when we still had actual journalism, and reporters reported events, instead of spinning narratives and considering themselves to be the Guardians of Information Proper for General Consumption and Responsible for Correct Opinion Shaping. Oh, the examples I could give from recent events in Finland... --- End quote --- You're right. Our BBC, seems to show excessive Political Correctness. So, that the real news details, often get filtered out. Which is somewhat silly, unfortunately. So, these days, you end up, googling, to find out (unfiltered), what really happened. This (threads) Political Correctness, of Source Code, and similar files. Is probably a big can of worms, and could be rather problematic in the future. E.g. Could an employee, claim damages, because they read "BlackList, WhiteList Master Slave" etc, in some source code, from twenty years ago. So they now want £45,000 in damages, for the suffering and hurt, after reading that in the source code. |
| Simon:
--- Quote from: MK14 on July 29, 2020, 08:44:13 pm --- You're right. Our BBC, seems to show excessive Political Correctness. So, that the real news details, often get filtered out. Which is somewhat silly, unfortunately. So, these days, you end up, googling, to find out (unfiltered), what really happened. --- End quote --- In this case it wasn't even filtered news, it was non news and an opinion that should have been told what to go do with itself. |
| MK14:
--- Quote from: Simon on July 29, 2020, 09:47:00 pm ---In this case it wasn't even filtered news, it was non news and an opinion that should have been told what to go do with itself. --- End quote --- This does seem to happen quite a lot. Instead of the important, real news items, that matter, being reported on the BBC. It will be some, relatively insignificant and unimportant, non-newsworthy story. An example (carefully chosen, to NOT encourage off-topic debate). https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-53585066 TikTok blasts 'copycat' Facebook as US starts probe So, instead of reporting, important and/or semi-important, UK and world-wide news stories, that matter. They are making what could be interpreted as advertising, about the US (remember/hint we are the UK), and it is just 'Title tattle', somewhat non-news. |
| PlainName:
--- Quote ---So, instead of reporting, important and/or semi-important, UK and world-wide news stories, that matter. --- End quote --- See in that link you posted where it says '../technology-...', that means this is the technology section. Forget anything that isn't technology for a start, then let's have a look at what they're headlining in that section. So, at this very moment the headline is the US tech giants grilling in Congress, then there's the Wiley tweets thing, another bit on the grilling, Bezo's missus donating $1.7bn to charity, National trust victim of a hack, nipple tassle in a recipe earning a reprimand(!), Turkey's MPs voting for something, etc. I think TikTok happens to be where it is because the stories are timestamped. The latest update (for me now) is 22:44 with the grilling, 19:58 with Wiley, 18:48 another Wiley, 16:30 TickTol, 15:11 Google smart glasses refund, etc. It's just one of several technology stories. And, actually, it could be quite important 'world-wide' too since it's just part of the tit-for-tat thing that Trump has going with China at the moment. On a par with the Huawei thing, possibly, if it escalates. Go on then: what would you put there in its place? Give us your best BBC Technology News page articles. |
| MK14:
--- Quote from: dunkemhigh on July 29, 2020, 10:29:09 pm ---Go on then: what would you put there in its place? Give us your best BBC Technology News page articles. --- End quote --- Here we go. https://www.theregister.com/2020/07/29/chinese_ambassador_uk_threats_over_huawei/ --- Quote ---Chinese ambassador to UK threatens to withdraw Huawei, £3bn investment if comms giant banned from building 5G --- End quote --- And .. https://www.theregister.com/2020/07/29/amd_q2_2020/ --- Quote ---AMD is now following More's Law: More chips, more money, more pressure on Intel, more competition in the x86 space --- End quote --- |
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