> We don't live in an orwelian society. We REALLY don't. 1. This is France, so it really only speaks to how things are happening in France. The majority of the

> We don't live in an orwelian society. We REALLY don't. 1. This is France, so it really only speaks to how things are happening in France. The majority of the people on this site are probably concentrated in Bay Area, which is not in France. Life in East Germany under the Stasi was pretty bad, but it also didn't describe conditions everywhere. 2. You could almost view this in the same light as DRM on media. The criminals easily skirt it, but the normal people are left paying the price (a degraded experience in the case of DRM; a watchful government eye in the case of surveillance).