[Don’t forget to take the poll at the bottom and leave your comments if you’ve read the book] If they haven’t already, apparently, a lot of people will be reading George Orwell’s classic predictions about big government soon. In the wake of the NSA snooping–allegations of listening in on Verizon customers and the PRISM program […]
Have you read 1984 lately? [Poll]
June 12, 2013 by Daniel Burton
Filed Under: books, Books and Reading Tagged With: 1984, Animal Farm, books and reading, classic, George Orwell, Literature, totalitarian
Words to avoid? Not just the four letter type.
May 30, 2012 by Daniel Burton
While I’ve long since decided that our society is becoming much more like Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World than George Orwell’s 1984, there is something Orwellian about recent news that the watchful eye of the American security and intelligence community is surveying our electronic communications (read: the internet) of Americans for certain words and phrases. In an effort to avoid terrorist attacks (I assume), the smart guys at the Department of Homeland Security have come up with a list of words and phrases that they scan the internet to alert them to potential events that may threaten the US. [cont…]
Filed Under: Fourth Amendment, National Security/Intelligence Tagged With: 1984, big brother, Brave New World, Department of Homeland Security, FISA, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, Fourth Amendment, Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution, intelligence, National Conference of State Legislatures, Search and Seizure, spying, USA PATRIOT Act
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