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btparker | 2 years ago

Yeah! How dare they, referencing literature.

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pjmlp|2 years ago

That wasn't the point, no need for literature references when you can enjoy that kind of life today when living in less fortunate regions.

absrec|2 years ago

Draconian IT laws mean that in many countries you could be persecuted for threatening national security as a blanket rule with indefinitely the long harassment called investigation.

K0balt|2 years ago

Or, just dealing with FAANG

steve1977|2 years ago

Your sarcasm has been noted and recorded.

mysterydip|2 years ago

Everything you do has been noted and recorded. We'll determine later if it's something we don't like in the future.

krapp|2 years ago

Referencing 1984, Brave New World and that quote about freedom of speech that Voltaire never actually said make up the holy trinity of pseudo-intellectual posturing on the internet.

account-5|2 years ago

Yeah it was Voltaire's biographer who was describing what she thought was Voltaire's thinking at the time. Still a good quote though regardless of source.

brookst|2 years ago

“1984 was dystopian, and anything I don’t like is dystopian, therefore anything I don’t like is straight out of 1984”