Will Newspeak work in curbing unwanted views? In my opinion, it will work. Firstly, what does it mean by unwanted views? Unwanted views refer to views critical of the authorities which they do not want and therefore deem unwanted.
By removing the meanings of words as concepts, people gradually cannot describe these conditions as words in their minds, and would cease to even think about them. When people cease to think about these 'unwanted' concepts, it will never become an expressed view and thus Newspeak would have been said to have succeeded in curbing unwanted views.
Of course there is the argument of concepts being expressed as pictures in one's mind, but still for a person to express this concept to others for them to understand would require him to express in words, something he cannot do, thus being unable to spread unwanted views in society. How can it be possible to talk about something that does not exist? As such, I believe Newspeak will work in curbing unwanted views.
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