HACKER Q&A
📣 amichail

Will countries ban realtime language translation to reduce overt racism?


Language barriers are currently used as a socially acceptable way to discriminate — especially on the basis of race.

If real-time translation removes these barriers, people might become much more overt in their racism.

And perhaps countries have an interest in preventing that from happening.

  👤 aurizon Accepted Answer ✓
Nope. the language barrier allows 'secret' communication to your own co-linguists while to the person slandered = ducks talking = quack-quack-quack. With instant online translation quack-quack-quack = 'go home, we do not need you here = Hey, a talking racist duck. In effect full communication enabled and people will lose their ability to communicate covertly as a secret group. This is similar to secret online chat-bullying that would be inhibited by the ability to confront your critics and expose them.