points by cowlevel 2 days ago | 0 comments
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.
[–] thaumasiotes 2 days ago
> 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".
[–] cowlevel 2 days ago
Then Netflix is a DVD rental?
[–] thaumasiotes 2 days ago
If you think really, really hard, maybe you'll be able to get your arrows the right way around.
[–] cowlevel 2 days ago
DVD rental developed from online streaming?
It’s basically synonymous with user-generated content site. It’s why TikTok is social media and Netflix isn’t, and PineDrama is somewhere in the middle because even though it’s studio content there’s still emphasis on the comments and whatnot.