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Apple’s anti-Big Brother ad more relevant after 30 years
Thirty years on, the 1984 Super Bowl best is remembered for Apple’s iconic “1984” commercial. It included references to Big Brother and Orwell’s “1984” novel, the repressive Soviet Union during a tense part of the Cold War and the approaching
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Orwellian UK arrests CA preacher for free speech violation
July 12, 2013 By John Seiler George Orwell’s nightmare of an “Orwellian” totalitarian regime taking over his native United Kingdom — Airstrip One — has come true. As he wrote in the appendix to “1984”: “Newspeak was the official language
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Big Brother IRS is watching you on Twitter and Facebook
April 8, 2013 Just in time for the government’s favorite day of the year: April 15. When they gouge us down to the bone. Now the IRS is spying on our Twitter and Facebook accounts: “It says the effort is
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