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by systemvoltage 1643 days ago
Isn’t that exactly the opposite of being Orwellian? Privacy of citizens is at stake.
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Sharing information and knowing something you are not supposed to is indeed Orwellian. It's not the absence of privacy that defines Orwells's 1984, it's government monopoly on it and all the information flows in general.