Forbidden words

17 December 2017

You know how the US government's Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is now forbidden from using certain words?

vulnerable
entitlement
diversity
transgender
fetus
evidence-based
science-based

(source: Washington Post)

Well, in order to help slow down the spread of political speech enforcement that is apparently stopping all of us cool innovator type people from saying the Things We Can't Say, here's a Git hook to make sure that every time you blog, you include at least one of the forbidden words.

If you blog without including one of the forbidden words, you're obviously internalizing censorship and need more freedom, which you can maybe get by getting out of California for a while. After all, a lot of people here seem to think that "innovation" is building more creepy surveillance as long as you call it "growth hacking" or writing apps to get members of the precariat to do the stuff that your Mom used to do for you.

You only have to include one forbidden word every time you commit a blog entry, not in every file. You only need forbidden words in blog entries, not in scripts or templates. You can always get around the forbidden word check with the --no-verify command-line option.

Suggestions and pull requests welcome. script on GitHub