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If it was the left wing driving Facebook it would not collect so much data. They’re the ones who wrote about big brother, not the other guys.
by jleyank 4y ago
If it was the left wing driving Facebook it would not collect so much data. They’re the ones who wrote about big brother, not the other guys.
- poszlem 4y agoAs far as I am aware Orwell's big brother was created after the left wing totalitarianisms, so I have no idea what are you on about.
- jleyank 4y agoWell, he fought the fascists in Spain (you can read homage to Catalonia) so he knew about them. Animal farm is his description of the Russian revolution and after. Ww ii saw two right wing, one left wing and Japan as the totalitarian states.
- CamperBob2 4y agoDepends on whether you see the Stasi and KGB as "left" or "right" organizations. It doesn't take a whole lot of thought to convince yourself that these are the wrong terms to use when discussing the problem of large-scale data collection and misuse. As for Orwell, he was a socialist, for what little that's worth.
- poszlem 4y agoEspecially since KGB was created to supercede Чека, which was created by a hardcore Bolshevik.
- HideousKojima 4y agoYes Orwell was a leftist, but he also wrote Animal Farm, a criticism of leftists for becoming hypocrites after gaining power.
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- ralusek 4y ago1984 is a criticism, first and foremost, of authoritarianism.