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by sgift 3146 days ago
In 1984 you had the Telescreen in every house. You were not allowed to cover it up and it was used to broadcast propaganda into peoples homes without any filtering (plus it was a surveillance device, but that's besides the point here).
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No, the point is that in 1984 you had doublespeak, where people used words in ways that were contradictory to their meaning[0] - in the way that the GP claims that prohibiting filtering is somehow a form of censorship, when censorship is literally a form of filtering.

0.https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doublespeak