[northrup]

It’s as if nobody has ever read George Orwell’s 1984: “It was terribly dangerous to let your thoughts wander when you were in any public place or within range of a telescreen. The smallest thing could give you away. A nervous tic, an unconscious look of anxiety, a habit of muttering to yourself – anything that carried with it the suggestion of abnormality, of having something to hide. In any case, to wear an improper expression on your face (to look incredulous when a victory was announced, for example) was itself a punishable offense.”

[csomar]

They just now found the tools to enforce it.

[jcelerier]

> It’s as if nobody has ever read George Orwell’s 1984

no, they read it and think "how can we do even better"

[dang]

Please don't post this sort of cheap flamebait crack here. It makes discussions poorer.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[toyg]

Orwell is the modern Machiavelli. In about 100 years, people will be wondering if 1984 was satire/criticism or an actual blueprint for effective government in the digital age, in the same way the real aim of Il Principe has been endlessly debated for centuries.