Extreme normative regimes fail their own corpus due to high text redundancy
RexDouglass · x · 2026-08-21
A researcher argues that those designing strict content moderation regimes often misunderstand human text patterns. Large-scale clustering reveals shocking overlap in how people re-describe things, often slightly modifying existing texts—especially in news. This results in "fascist normativity" where the regimes' own text corpus wouldn't pass their own standards.
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