Posted on 02/27/2016 6:03:36 AM PST by MarvinStinson
If you’re a sensitive progressive who is sent to the fainting couch every time you encounter any words you find upsetting there’s a new offering from Google which should vastly improve your life.
In particular, if you find the idea of people who oppose abortion to be distressing and are sent into apoplectic fits when their ideas are published on the internet, it’s a dangerous world indeed. You can visit any number of news and opinion sites where the horrible term “pro-life” appears, insulting your sensibilities and inflaming your sense of outrage. Well, that can all be a thing of the past now.
With the addition of a simple Google add-on to your Chrome browser, each and every instance of the term pro-life will be helpfully replaced with, “anti-choice.” (Independent Journal Review)
Many colleges have been petitioned in recent years, through student protests and petitions, to create “safe spaces” for minority populations. “Safe Spaces” have become the norm for female students, African American students, LGBT students and other groups.
And now, thanks to an extension available on Google Chrome, internet users one step closer to having a “safe space,” protected from language that they find offensive.
The extension, created by an anonymous activist in collaboration with the National Institute for Reproductive Health Action Fund, is called “Choice Language” and edits every page to change the phrase “pro-life” to “anti-choice.”
Described by the president of the NIRH as, “a really interesting and creative idea,” this uninvited editing of the work of other authors is being hailed as just the solution our nation is crying out for, at least in liberal circles. But that’s really the question here, isn’t it?
Google is offering a product which you can install on your browser which will edit not only the raw text, but the tone and inflection of anyone writing about the subject at hand. Can anyone explain how this is allowable?
Once the altered text shows up in one liberal blogger’s window it can be copied and pasted into other sites (within the limits of fair use laws) as if that was how the material was originally published.
Would Google tolerate a tool which took every liberal diatribe on web and substituted the term “gun control” with “anti-gun rights” in the text? How about if it replaced “voter suppression” with “voter fraud prevention” in every voter ID opinion piece? Somehow I suspect it would be less well received.
In fact, we should probably contact a few lawyers about this because editing the work of others without their express consent or any claim of ownership of the original material sounds as if it should certainly be illegal, doesn’t it? It’s also an open door to completely ruin the original material in some cases.
Imagine if this column were run through that filter. (If any Chrome users have this tool, let me know.) The last sentence of the first paragraph would read, the term anti-choice will be helpfully replaced with, “anti-choice.”
Either you’re pro-life or pro-murder. There is no other words that make the case.
choice is premeditation
Google just changed their motto to ‘Be Evil’...
I’m not a lawyer, but wouldn’t authors have the right not to have their work presented AS THEY WROTE IT, not as some touchy-feely numbskull at Google thinks they SHOULD have written it?
What kind of path is THAT to go down?
Both sides are so worried with labels and not substance. An people wonder why we’re in the mess we’re in.
Can we get an analogous program that replaces “pro-choice” with the user’s preferred alternative from offerings like “pro-infanticide”, “anti-life”,... ?
I want an extension that turns “President Obama” into “Foreign-Enemy Combatant-in-Chief Obama”.
Think Google will help me out on that?
As long as it is an “add-on”, I’m not bothered by it. In fact, it would be fun to download the add-on and edit the code so that we can produce our own add-ons. We could substitute “Democrat” with “Socialist” (as Bernie Sanders has already helpfully done), replace “pro-choice” with “pro-baby murder”, replace “gun control” with “gun grabber”, “anti-smoking” with “anti-freedom”. The possibilities are endless.
Embrace the new technology, rather than fearing it. This should be an easy code to crack in the hands of an average programmer.
What if I invented a Google Chrome tool that would take entire columns by liberals and phony GOP-e “conservatives” and replace them with the phrase “utter nonsense?”
Combined PING! and DANG!
The NY TIMES and the Washington Post have already done that for years.
They specialize in altering direct quotes from Israeli government officials.
Whenever the Israeli official uses the word “terrorist,” the NY TIMES and the Washington Post change it to “militant.”
EVEN IN a direct quote.
Who watches the watchers?
Google will help you if you are a Democrat. Follow the money. Follow the people in control.
This is disturbing...
Truth hurts because the soul knows right from wrong. That is why fools what to hide in ‘safe places’ with troubled souls, not knowing that their conscience will never allow them to live in peace. They have devised a means to be permanently tormented and angry with themselves and civilized society.
Google,Facebook, Amazon, Twitter
are part of the US government.
I searched “Choice Language” on my Chrome extensions. Yes, it’s there. Also, right below it are: “Choice Language Pro-Life” which replaces “anti-choice” and “anti-abortion” with “pro-life” and “Pro-Life Language” which replaces “pro-choice” with “misguided souls.”
Choice is not a virtue, so being either pro- or anti- means nothing.
This looks like a way for liberals to white wash the pro-choicers by making pro-lifers looking like obstructionists.
Pro-lifers need to continue using our own terms: Pro-Life and Pro-abortion.
Both pro life and pro choice are misleading terms used as propaganda by both sides.
Most pro lifers are for the death penalty, and probably the majority of pro-choicers are against it.
More accurate terms would be anti-abortion and pro-abortion.
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