BTW — What’s one of the most effective forms of censorship, that’s gone almost entirely unrecognized for what it is?

Censorship by forcing target words to be much longer, eventually forcing them into rediculously long phrases.

Parsimony censorship, let’s call it.

How does it work?

Well, humans, naturally, in any given domain of discourse SHORTEN the length of words that are used more FREQUENTLY, while leaving the length of LESS-FREQUENTLY-mentioned concepts much LONGER.

E.g. as observed by Zipf's law, and btw there are basic information theory principles why this is just what any effective communication system needs.

So far so good. Nothing too surprising yet.

But what happens if you do the reverse — Forcing people to use much longer phrases for certain concepts, e.g. through political correctness?

Surprisingly, the causation works in reverse too!

Force people to lengthen words, and suddenly people talk about those things much worse.

Censorship achived.

Linguistic determinism weaponized.

Most effective censorship weapon no one’s ever explicitly pointed out (AFAIK?) No, it’s not just forced speach, but literal censorship too.

Linguistic parsimony censorship.