[CallMePK]

This is just so sad. 1984 is not supposed to be a manual.

[simonh]

I read an interview with a former KGB officer who said that, while the book was formally banned in the soviet union, it was circulated among national security types as a useful fund of ideas.

[pchr8]

Do you have a link for the interview?

[simonh]

This was maybe a decade or so after the fall of the USSR, in one of those old fashioned paper magazine things.

[lioeters]

Seeing the phrase "smart city" was the trigger for me, the stink of Newspeak and Doublethink is unmistakable. Shame on Eurasia, I mean, Eastasia..

[chmars]

Neither the Snowden leaks. In many countries, the became the blueprint for new security laws …

[chapium]

China has a very different view of personal liberty.