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5 things George Orwell understood
5 things George Orwell understood Famed author implores us to be vigilant, and to keep the faiths of decency, tolerance and humanity George Orwell at the BBC in 1941. The insights of his books and many other writings still resonate today. (Penguin Books India) Related Stories The Orwell Tapes, Part 1 The Orwell Tapes, Part […]
Why Do We Expose Ourselves?
WHY DO WE EXPOSE OURSELVES? AMONG CRITICS OF TECHNOLOGICAL SURVEILLANCE, there are two allusions so commonplace they have crossed into the realm of cliché. One, as you have probably already guessed, is George Orwell’s Big Brother, from 1984. The other is Michel Foucault’s panopticon — a vision, adapted from Jeremy Bentham, of a prison in which […]
U.K. Police ‘to Be Given Powers to View Everyone’s Entire Internet History’
U.K. Police ‘to Be Given Powers to View Everyone’s Entire Internet History’ Ministerio TIC Colombia / CC BY 2.0 British police are to be given the power to view the entire Internet history of everyone in the U.K. in a new surveillance bill to be published next week, reports say. Under the proposed plan, telecoms and Internet […]
Money is Coined Liberty – The Latest Salvos in the War on Cash
Money is Coined Liberty – The Latest Salvos in the War on Cash Another Keynesian Voodoo Economist Wants to See Cash Abolished We have a few more bad news and for a change also some good news with respect to the ongoing attempt to prepare the ground for a ban of cash currency. By now […]
UK Prime Minister David Cameron Proclaims – It’s Not Enough to Follow the Law, You Must Love Big Brother
UK Prime Minister David Cameron Proclaims – It’s Not Enough to Follow the Law, You Must Love Big Brother It’s not just those domestic extremists and crazy “conspiracy theory” kooks who took serious issue with UK Prime Minister David Cameron’s recent overtly fascist language when it comes to freedom of expression in Great Britain. For example, […]
The Wolf Is Guarding the Hen House: The Government’s War on Cyberterrorism
The Wolf Is Guarding the Hen House: The Government’s War on Cyberterrorism “The game is rigged, the network is bugged, the government talks double-speak, the courts are complicit and there’s nothing you can do about it.”—David Kravets, reporting for Wired Nothing you write, say, text, tweet or share via phone or computer is private anymore. As […]
By Demanding Backdoors to Encryption, U.S. Government is Undermining Global Freedom and Security
By Demanding Backdoors to Encryption, U.S. Government is Undermining Global Freedom and Security One of the biggest debates happening at the intersection of technology and privacy at the moment revolves around the U.S. government’s fear that the American peasantry may gain access to strong encryption in order to protect their private communications. Naturally, this isn’t something Big Brother wants […]
Creepy, Calculating and Controlling: All the Ways Big Brother Is Watching You
Creepy, Calculating and Controlling: All the Ways Big Brother Is Watching You “You had to live—did live, from habit that became instinct—in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized.”—George Orwell, 1984 None of us are perfect. All of us bend the rules occasionally. Even before the age […]
Creepy, Calculating and Controlling: All the Ways Big Brother Is Watching You
Creepy, Calculating and Controlling: All the Ways Big Brother Is Watching You “You had to live—did live, from habit that became instinct—in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized.”—George Orwell, 1984 None of us are perfect. All of us bend the rules occasionally. Even before the […]
The Broken Template
The Broken Template The more detached from reality American culture becomes the more strictly ceremonial leadership gets, as illustrated by the raft of bromides Barack Obama floated past the assembled vassalage of government last week in another grand effort to avoid the necessities of the moment. Those necessities include freeing a hostage public from the […]
And That Successfully Concludes “Big Brother 101”
And That Successfully Concludes “Big Brother 101” Desperate to spin Europe’s deflation, pardon “negative inflation” pardon the lack of impulse to go ahead and spend money you don’t have right here right now, into a good, if only for Keynesians, thing? Don’t worry – we’ve got you covered. Below is a sampling of perfectly contradictory Reuters headlines all posted within a […]
