George Orwell got it wrong

dontpanicbobby · Apr 17, 2017

It won't be "The State" that watches everything you do. Its going to be "Corporations" Frederick Pohl and CM. Kornbluth wrote "The Space Merchants" back in 1953.

With the passage of this your ISP can sell everything you do online to the highest bidder. Engadget did a little write up about it last month.

We live in interesting times.

psionandy · Apr 17, 2017

hmmm... Interesting, I'd alway framed it as a spectrum between Brave new World and 1984... (with a frightening chance of a left turn into Heinlein/Handmades Tale).... but I'll have to add this to the reading list.

Oddly enough it doesn't seem to be available in the UK on the Play store or Kindle.

cooldood · Apr 17, 2017

Ben Franklin go it right
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
With the "patriot" act the government cna and does listen to everything. It started out that if you had one of 300 some odd words in your conversation they could "lawfully" monitor you. Now Snowden says the list is up to 2000 words.

today · Apr 17, 2017

sicks,sicks,sicks?

dontpanicbobby · Apr 17, 2017

Not yet today.

Gmash · Apr 17, 2017

dontpanicbobby said:
It won't be "The State" that watches everything you do. Its going to be "Corporations" Frederick Pohl and CM. Kornbluth wrote "The Space Merchants" back in 1953.
This is what happens with a corporate orangutan as president.

With the passage of this your ISP can sell everything you do online to the highest bidder. Engadget did a little write up about it last month.

We live in interesting times.

Davdi · May 21, 2017

VPN/TOR - not ideal but at least gives you a chance of staying private(ish). And yes, I know than NSA monitors SOME TOR exit nodes.

Deleted User · May 21, 2017

Davdi said:
VPN/TOR - not ideal but at least gives you a chance of staying private(ish). And yes, I know than NSA monitors SOME TOR exit nodes.

Plus it's slow as hell.

BPMz · Aug 16, 2017

search for Albert pikes 3 world wars letter and...

BPMz · Aug 25, 2017

but I suppose I can guess what exactly like

.. respect for the fact is I have no idea what I am doing for the next things to expect to see how you feel and how you feel about the new world order or is a conspiracy theory and the rest is history

George Orwell got it wrong

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