[mytailorisrich]

The comparison is apt IMO, as per Wikipedia pages linked to:

"To meet the ideological requirements of English Socialism (Ingsoc) in Oceania, the ruling Party created Newspeak,[1] a controlled language of simplified grammar and restricted vocabulary, meant to limit the freedom of thought—personal identity, self-expression, free will—that threatens the ideology of the régime of Big Brother and the Party, who have criminalised such concepts into thoughtcrime as contradictions of Ingsoc orthodoxy."

[geofft]

In what way does this pull request "limit the freedom of thought—personal identity, self-expression, free will"?