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Comment by cowlevel

18 hours ago

It's a word game. By calling it a court, legitimacy is implied. Most personalized TV channels are called "social media" even though they're really "personal TV" because the former sounds like it connects you with your friends. The NSA isn't a "surveillance state", it's "intelligence gathering". It's not a war, it's a special military operation. And so on.

> Most personalized TV channels are called "social media" even though they're really "personal TV" because the former sounds like it connects you with your friends.

This is clearly untrue; they're called "social media" because they developed inside other things that were already called "social media".