[SGVLUG] [OT] I have found "Big Brother", and he is us...

[Christopher Smith]

Keep in mind that not all ideas that seem bad in fiction turn out to be bad
in non-fiction. Even then, something which is a bad idea in one time and
context might prove to be a good thing in a different one (or vice-versa).
(None of this is to suggest we don't have a problem with overly broad
surveillance mandates, but merely that the "astonish George Orwell" litmus
test is perhaps not a good one).

--Chris

On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 9:55 PM, John E. Kreznar <jek at ininx.com> wrote:

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>  If George Orwell were alive now he would be astonished by the fact
>  that the sort of surveillance he feared is supported not by a
>  government imposing it from above on an unwilling population but by a
>  groundswell of popular support.
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>  -- Victor Keegan, Guardian Unlimited, Thursday August 4, 2005
>  <http://www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,3858,5254923-103572,00.html>
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>  John E. Kreznar jek at ininx.com 9F1148454619A5F08550 705961A47CC541AFEF13
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-- 
Chris
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