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Hello, Doublethink

by David Sims

HAVE YOU ever wondered what George Orwell meant by the term “doublethink” in his book 1984? I just now found an illustration.

Yahoo Answers has posted the following announcement:

In order to strengthen and improve community and engagement, we are temporarily disabling comments.

Our goal is always to create a safe, engaging place to connect over interests and passions and we’d love your feedback on how to improve this experience. Please email us your feedback at [email protected]

How is “community engagement” carried out? Through comments. That’s it. There is no other community engagement on Yahoo Answers, other than through comments. When Yahoo disables comments, they prevent community engagement. The idea that community can somehow be improved by disabling comments is self-contradictory.

What’s really going on, of course, is censorship. Some people make comments that Yahoo does not like, and so Yahoo has disabled comments until it figures out a way to control which comments may appear and which comments will be deleted.

Be alert for this kind of nonsense. It’s called “doublethink” because it requires someone to believe in two mutually contradictory propositions at the same time.

(Yahoo, by the way, has just announced they will totally shut down Yahoo Groups, possibly the largest free discussion venue on the Internet, in a few weeks.)

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Karen
Karen
19 October, 2020 12:17 pm

I’m a big fan of black & white old TV westerns. I belong to a Yahoo group following “Laramie” star from the 1960’s, Robert Fuller. Our Robert Fuller Yahoo group is indeed shutting down. I guess (((they))) want everybody over on Facebook so that it will be easier for them to spy and keep track of us. Needless to say, I will NOT be joining the Robert Fuller Facebook group.

Luna
Luna
20 October, 2020 7:30 am

I used Yahoo Answers strictly for motorcycle related issues. How is disabling comments going to help anyone?

mynameisused
mynameisused
Reply to  Luna
24 October, 2020 7:52 pm

It’s going to help (((them))).

Stevie
Stevie
23 October, 2020 3:03 pm

Freedom of speech and independent free thought…something completely foreign to the mind of a jew. They’re very desperate to shut down any and all free talk about jewry, WWII revisionism, and basically anything that could get the jews in big trouble. If speaking the truth freely about the jews could cause problems for the jew then that’s their own damned fault. They will reap what they have sewn for so many centuries. I hope it all comes crashing down on the jew very soon. Every jew-owned tech-based company should be put out of business and their indoctrination platforms (jew media) utterly eliminated. And we won’t be nice to the jews like Hitler was.