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Posted by Ernest Miller on Tuesday, October 22 @ 11:20:56 EDT Copyright
Seth Finkelstein engages in crimethink (Digital-Rights-Management indeed matches Newspeak):
That is, for Newspeak, we have:
Its vocabulary was so constructed as to give exact and often very subtle expression to every meaning that a Party member could properly wish to express, while excluding all other meanings and also the possibility of arriving at them by indirect methods.
Don't we have, exactly, for Digital-Rights-Management:
Its vocabulary was so constructed as to give exact and often very subtle expression to every business model that a content industry member could properly wish to sell access, while excluding all other access and also the possibility of arriving at them by indirect methods.
Ed Felten also had some things to say at Freedom to Tinker (More on the Almost-General-Purpose Language). See also, Newspeak Dictionary.
 
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