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I've talked about how creepy Office365's "editor" is, and how much I hate it. This video explains it even better, though. I can't believe that we've normalised the thinking that 1997 was some sort of "dark age", and that allowing software to police our language like this is somehow acceptable. Evil. (www.youtube.com)
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– bamboozler1 [S] 9 points 3 years ago +9 / -0

If you've seen the "inclusivity" or "sensitive geopolitical references" functions in action, on your own work, then trust me, they're not good...

As I've mentioned before, I have an organisational account where you can't disable these "corrections". It gets incredibly annoying, because of course, it doesn't understand context.

Other discussion of this has already mentioned how it wants you to use "assigned male at birth" or similar, instead of how you would normally refer to biological sex, so I assure you, this is not as... Benevolent as your impression seems to be, from the video...

I agree on the second paragraph. That's the point - you are seeing, with this example, but a small idea of just how bad this is, in practice...

Imagine that, but much more intrusive, wherein references to "fat people", "retardation", "Taiwan is a country" or "that group of men" are explicitly no longer sanctioned by the software you are using, and that information is then conveyed to your workplace...

This really should not be acceptable, in a supposedly (relatively) "free" society.

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