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This is just so sad. 1984 is not supposed to be a manual.

• chapium 7y ago
  China has a very different view of personal liberty.
• simonh 7y ago
  I read an interview with a former KGB officer who said that, while the book was formally banned in the soviet union, it was circulated among national security types as a useful fund of ideas.
  • pchr8 7y ago
    Do you have a link for the interview?
    • simonh 7y ago
      This was maybe a decade or so after the fall of the USSR, in one of those old fashioned paper magazine things.
• chmars 7y ago
  Neither the Snowden leaks. In many countries, the became the blueprint for new security laws …
• lioeters 7y ago
  Seeing the phrase "smart city" was the trigger for me, the stink of Newspeak and Doublethink is unmistakable. Shame on Eurasia, I mean, Eastasia..