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Google may have stepped in a bear trap this time. Friday The Wall Street Journal claimed that Google had apparently figured out how to bypass Safari's security settings (the default browser on Macs) and had been tracking people without their consent. But
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Do you remember George Orwells "1984," the thought police, Big Brother is watching you, the Ministry of Love? Sad to consider and visit, but the crestfallen circumstance did not happen suddenly. The condition had a history. It had to for its citizens to
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The first thing that we demand of a wall is that it shall stand up. If it stands up, it is a good wall, and the question of what purpose it serves is separable from that. And yet even the best wall in the world deserves to be pulled down if it surrounds a concentration camp.
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Australia had one of the worst records of so-called civilised countries for the banning of books. Sir Robert Garran, chairman of the Australian Commonwealth Book Censorship Board, dismissed George Orwell’s socially critical novel of 1930s London, Keep th
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Everyone should read the Freedom Charter at least once; just to get some insight into how far the ANC has strayed from its core principles. I intent to write a few articles on the Freedom Charter – for no particular reason other than that the ANC is know
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Sometimes the simplest ideas carry with them, when thought through, such a powerful taste of how the future could be that they are quite irresistible. One such idea has led me to spend the last couple of days immersed in trying to find out as much as I c
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The horrible world of George Orwell is becoming a reality under your rule ... You are forcing bills that are the foundations of oppression. 1984 is already here, and it’s awful.
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For a person from the educated middle class who is going to pieces spiritually from lack of employment, the hardest thing is maintaining appearances. Practically every cent and reserve of dignity is diverted into the illusion of gentility. Your clothes,
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The word ‘Orwellian’ has become over-used to the point of cliche. Yet there is really no other way to describe the deeply sinister, upside-down onslaught upon common sense that has extended even into the school playgrounds of politically correct Britain.
About George Orwell
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Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950), better known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English author. His work is marked by a profound consciousness of social injustice, an intense dislike of totalitarianism, and a passion for clarity in language. Full Article
