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the three ts China has a very Orwellian reason for banning typing "1984" on social media, while allowing people to read Nineteen Eighty-Four Cory Doctorow
rip barlow Reviving the Independence of Cyberspace Sean O'Brien
sybil attacks Neither Huxleyed, nor Orwelled: living in the Phildickian dystopia Cory Doctorow
brave new world George Orwell's letter from his former French teacher, Aldous Huxley, about Nineteen Eighty-Four David Pescovitz
whuffie Gamified compliance: China's reputation network Huxleys to the full Orwell Cory Doctorow
irony Ministry of Irony: Orwell estate tries to censor mentions of the number 1984 Cory Doctorow
orwell Fun Orwell facts! Cory Doctorow
telescreen Telescreen watch: Vizio adds spyware to its TVs Cory Doctorow
huxley Bottom line: are humans sensors or things to be sensed? Cory Doctorow
database nation Ontario police's Big Data assigns secret guilt to people looking for jobs, crossing borders Cory Doctorow
kafka Surveillance state: the NSA doesn't stand alone Cory Doctorow
lavabit Kafka, meet Orwell: Lavabit's founder explains why he shut down his company Cory Doctorow
clapper Clapper's ban on talking about leaks makes life difficult for crypto profs with cleared students Cory Doctorow
1984 is not a manual for statecraft UK cops officially detained David Miranda for thoughtcrime Cory Doctorow
orwell Orwell explains Nineteen Eighty-Four Cory Doctorow
orwell More on the NSA's weird, deceptive, indefensible definition of "targeted surveillance" Cory Doctorow
au Official City of Melbourne IP address used for biased edits to Wikipedia page for Occupy Melbourne prior to local election Cory Doctorow
hitchens Hitchens and Orwell Rob Beschizza
precrime Why the DHS's pre-crime biometric profiling is doomed to fail, and will doom passengers with its failures Cory Doctorow