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1-Old-Man

(2,667 posts) Sat Jun 8, 2013, 01:24 PM Jun 2013

A lone example of good in the matter of Government Surveillance.

Remember reading 1984? There is a part where the lady on the telescreen barks out at Winston to bend deeper while doing his morning exercises. Well, that is the only example I know of in literature in which the Surveillance-State did anything good for one of its people.

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A lone example of good in the matter of Government Surveillance. (Original Post) 1-Old-Man Jun 2013 OP

Oh great! Now my TV can nag at me too! Vinnie From Indy Jun 2013 #1

Vinnie From Indy

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1. Oh great! Now my TV can nag at me too!

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Sat Jun 8, 2013, 01:30 PM

Jun 2013

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