I'm trying to hunt down an article I saw years ago, I think from Richard Stallman, about why he thinks the generic word "content" is demeaning to art and artists. Anyone know what I'm talking about or where I could find it?

@Wildcard Was it on his personal site?

@forest I don't remember. I couldn't find it there. "Content" is a really hard word to search for.

I use Tor so unfortunately Google doesn't work well for me. DDG is much worse at finding obscure content.

Or obscure "content."

heh

Ah here we go: gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.en.html#Content

Thanks, I hadn't tried Google. I usually use DDG which is great for most things. :)

Searching (without quotes) "Stallman content terminology" found it in one shot on Google (just found the top level "words to avoid" page) but nothing related on DDG. Interesting example of the difference.

Yup. Google is far better for obscure stuff, although they're not nearly as good as they used to be.

Bing is also actually quite good now, in some ways better than Google.

:)

@Wildcard You know, DDG is actually being pretty bad to me. I looked up something related to Tor Browser... No relevant results, so I put it in quotes, and it gifts me with two links to malware sites or otherwise fake download sites claiming to be "Official downloads".

@Wildcard Yes, content is a very corporate word.

One can see why corporations like it. Reduce everything to a homogenized product. Like processed meat or something equally unpleasant.