Jul 9, 2020
In this day of heightened feelings around words, Twitter has made a press release announcing they are going through their programming to change certain words because of current negative connotation. Is there an equal conversation on both sides of the words to be changed? At what point does it stop? With all the "offensive" words going through our lexicon today, we can go so far as to compare with Reddit of yesteryear, and the actions that are taking place in the present.
Twitter's New Programming Words:
https://twitter.com/TwitterEng/status/1278733305190342656?s=20
https://www.cnet.com/news/twitter-engineers-replace-racially-loaded-tech-terms-like-master-slave/
NY Times interview with Reddit CEO
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/30/us/politics/reddit-bans-steve-huffman.html
Reddit account suspension:
https://imgur.com/VeIHX7q
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