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by pjc50 1988 days ago
The problem with this statement is that there's a literal "ministry of information" involved, in the Orwellian sense of a controlling censor, and it's the Chinese government: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministry_of_Industry_and_Infor...
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Orwell's book actually described 3 super-states, all of which share same ideology and, presumably, have their own "ministries of truth".