Duckspeak

Duck-Speaking refers to duckspeak, a term defined by George Orwell in his novel Nineteen Eighty Four. Duckspeaking is the repetition and invocation of prior formulas, e.g. Use Real Names, as an excuse for activity (censorship for instance) which actually violates prior norms or self-claims.

Rather than revisiting the self-claims and current self-image to determine if they need revision, the duckspeaker simply deletes or engages in quack-over, which drowns the truth in more repeated copies of the formula.