What if Big Brother isn’t so bad after all?
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What if Big Brother isn’t so bad after all?
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#2> "A person or vehicle appears as a pixel, essentially a moving dot on the screen."
> "I was able to watch several killings caught on camera as they unfolded: ... a victim toppling to the ground"
It can't be both ways.
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#3AlJazeera, I am disappointed.
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#4So now Al Jazeera is kowtowing to the almighty surveillance state, too? This is depressing.
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#6CIA operative thinks Big Brother is 'not so bad after all'.
It's like the final paragraph of Orwell's 1984:
"He gazed up at the enormous face. Forty years it had taken him to learn what kind of smile was hidden beneath the dark moustache. O cruel, needless misunderstanding! O stubborn, self-willed exile from the loving breast! Two gin-scented tears trickled down the sides of his nose. But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother."
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#7> What if Big Brother isn’t so bad after all?
But what if it is? Try putting that genie back in the bottle. What about the surveillance regimes of the past, like the Stasi? They were such successes that we should use the modern technology we have today to add to the powers of the elite?
Right.
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#8CIA operative thinks Big Brother is 'not so bad after all'. It's like the final paragraph of Orwell's 1984: "He gazed up at the enormous face. Forty years it had taken him to learn what kind of smile was hidden beneath the dark moustache. O cruel, needless misunderstanding! O stubborn, self-willed exile from the loving breast! Two gin-scented tears trickled down the sides of his nose. But it was all right, everything…
"He had won the victory over himself."
Orwell—magical.
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#9AlJazeera, I am disappointed.
Seriously. This was very surprising to see. I had to double take the source.
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#10CIA operative thinks Big Brother is 'not so bad after all'. It's like the final paragraph of Orwell's 1984: "He gazed up at the enormous face. Forty years it had taken him to learn what kind of smile was hidden beneath the dark moustache. O cruel, needless misunderstanding! O stubborn, self-willed exile from the loving breast! Two gin-scented tears trickled down the sides of his nose. But it was all right, everything…
"He had won the victory over himself." Orwell—magical.
I didnt get that sentence, or the entire paragraph for that matter. Is there some story-dependent context that I'm missing here, or am I just too dense for Orwell?