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Re: Questions that didn't used to be sinister



Revised version.

Big Brother is Watching You!

Cameras are everywhere.  Just look at the use of WalMart and ATM cameras to
track hijackers.  Can we really trust the government, or educational
institutions, or corporations, or whomever to not expand the use of those
cameras, or link them together, in order to track other criminal activity, and
eventually any unpopular or politically incorrect activities?

And think about other themes in Orwell's 1984.

Both the recent Executive Order on presidential records, and the rapidly
growing movement to restrict access to government records will make it much
easier to first reinterpret what has happened and then just change the records
to match--after all, without public access, the citizentry will only have
access to whatever is the current government-approved version of history.

If you don't like this picture, what can you do about it?

Probably nothing.  It's too late, and as some folks on this list have
demonstrated, many (perhaps most) people seem happy to live in some version of
Orwell's world.

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