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Re: What Censorship Isn't
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Fri, 13 Apr 2007 18:29:10 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Leonard Hoffman wrote:
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler wrote:
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Where did the word “murfling” come from, anyway?
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Todd coined it. Altho it has since become a “bad” word, he intended it to
sound a little silly. The rest of the admins loved it, expecting that the
community would accept it as a compromise between no cursing and free speech.
It still amazes me that so many people seem to be upset about murfling and
use it as reference to an ‘Orwellian’ world where civil rights are slowly
eroded away by a malevolent government. The original intention was to
reinforce those rights, never to take them away.
Whether the intention is what happened or not is a matter of debate, but I
can assure you that it was with the best of intentions.
-Lenny
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From what (and how) I’ve read no-one has claimed that murfling is eroding
anyone’s rights. They have claimed that the term is a euphemistic way of
saying censored and that the use of euphemism is bad (at least from my reading).
From your description above it sounds like Todd chose a word because it was a
“silly” way of saying censored... which is a euphemism in my books.
Tim
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Message has 1 Reply:
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| (...) On the contrary, people have said it is bad. Describing something as "Orwellian" is making a judgment call about it- "Orwellian" is not good. And Todd's coining of the term was because he felt this particular solution had never been developed (...) (17 years ago, 13-Apr-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| (...) Todd coined it. Altho it has since become a "bad" word, he intended it to sound a little silly. The rest of the admins loved it, expecting that the community would accept it as a compromise between no cursing and free speech. It still amazes (...) (17 years ago, 13-Apr-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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