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Second, "thought-crime" refers to the rules of a society with a certain type of government (an imaginary one, in Orwell's book)

You know full well that it has come to mean a certain form of deliberately suppressing dissent through coercive means.

Google is not a society, it's a private company and you can't really think of its internal rules as defining crime, or being laws etc.

But our society is a society. Apparently, Google is full of ideologues who I wouldn't expect to have any qualms about unnerving forms of social engineering society, to make it fit their particular political agenda.



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