Finnish 'Polite Type' font combats cyberbullying (a "smart" font?)

[C C]

https://techxplore.com/news/2020-08-finn...lying.html

INTRO: A Finnish tech company has released an unusual tool to help combat cyberbullying: a type font. A team composed of specialists dealing with bullying, racism and other forms of intolerance devised a font that blurs out obscene words and replaces other hurtful words with gentler ones. The open source font works with popular word processors.

For instance, if a user attempts to type "I hate you," the sentence will automatically change to "I disagree with you." Typing "She is ugly" is changed to "She is not traditionally beautiful." Derogatory racial terms are changed to the proper name of the race or religion. Explicit obscenities are blurred out. Less offensive terms are altered. "You are stupid" is changed to "You are silly." Other insulting terms such as "dumb" and "idiot" are blurred out.

The font is called The Polite Type. "Our purpose is to promote equality and inclusion" according to Kia Haring, global head of communication and sustainability at tietoEVRY, the company that developed the font. "We want bullies to rethink the words they use and the actual meaning behind them… The Polite Type supports our vision of creating a safe and equal environment with digital solutions."

Tieto means knowledge in Finnish... (MORE - details)

https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/GcyU1IG1RvA

[Syne]

So, automated Newspeak.

And they fail to realize that this would only serve to lead to more innocuous language being assumed to be more harsh. "I disagree" being equated to "I hate you". Granted, that's what moronic, low-impulse control leftists usually mean or assume from simple disagreement, but why would we want to make that irrationality the standard?

[Zinjanthropos]

IOW....it fabricates a lie ?

I think they just created more hate/bully speak. How will I know if you hate what I write if you’re disagreeing with me. Personally I hope people aren’t that stupid ( is stupid blurred out at your end?) and figure the cryptic out fast. Don’t get the wrong message and shoot me for it though. I sense this font app, or whatever it is, will get someone to let down their guard, perhaps contribute to life threatening violence.

Mental block this a.m........what’s the word for: says one thing but means another?

[Syne]

Mental block this a.m........what’s the word for: says one thing but means another?

Equivocation - the use of ambiguous language to conceal the truth or to avoid committing oneself

[Zinjanthropos]

Mental block this a.m........what’s the word for: says one thing but means another?

Equivocation - the use of ambiguous language to conceal the truth or to avoid committing oneself

Bingo! Does intentionally changing someone’s script by use of logical fallacy constitute a form of (cyber)bullying?

[Syne]

Mental block this a.m........what’s the word for: says one thing but means another?

Equivocation - the use of ambiguous language to conceal the truth or to avoid committing oneself

Bingo! Does intentionally changing someone’s script by use of logical fallacy constitute a form of (cyber)bullying?

Nah, that's just intellectual dishonesty, where a person lies to themselves that misrepresenting someone's argument, or obfuscating their own, is somehow a win.

[confused2]

Although the video in the op was cast using adults the intention might be more to help (for example) spotty adolescents. Going straight for the jugular of the fat kid might have sent a rather mixed message - 'with our help fat kids can lead (almost) normal lives - don't expect any friends but our technology can take the sting out of the insults.'.
That wasn't quite what I intended when I started but there it is.

[Secular Sanity]

It reminds me of that "smelly tramp" clip from "Everybody Loves Raymon".

https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/SDpbBybi05Q