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You clearly don't understand what "big brother" is. "Dangerous" speech has propagated via numerous means for millennia. For example: ~240 years ago people were
by strictnein 8y ago
You clearly don't understand what "big brother" is.
"Dangerous" speech has propagated via numerous means for millennia. For example: ~240 years ago people were fomenting revolt using printing presses.
- peterwwillis 8y agoBig Brother is an all-seeing, all-knowing, totalitarian leader of a society that wields its power for its own sake, using surveillance as a tool towards that end. That's what some massive corporations effectively are today. People think today's Big Brothers are benign because their mission statements seem just or useful, but as I've shown above, there is significant potential for collateral damage. You're right, and we've needed to control those means numerous times over the millennia. Sometimes just to keep the powerful in power, sometimes to check the powerful, and sometimes to check the surging wave of popular revolt.