Survey: Many Americans say 'Big Brother' is here

[OhioChick]

Source: AP

Posted: 12:14 AM
Last Updated: 8 hours and 32 minutes ago
By: BARBARA ORTUTAY, AP

NEW YORK - There's little wonder why George Orwell's novel "1984" is seeing a resurgence in sales.

More than half of Americans polled in a survey released Thursday said they agreed with the statement "We are really in the era of Big Brother."

The survey from the University of Southern California was conducted last year, before recent revelations of large-scale, secret government surveillance programs. Yet it still found that some 35 percent of respondents agreed that "There is no privacy, get over it."

A growing number of Internet users said they are concerned about the government checking on their online activities, according to the survey. But even more people were worried about businesses doing the same.



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[dkf]

1. They haven't begun to think of what that means.

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Just wait til the light goes on.

[JudyM]

9. And the light won't be seen till google glass face recognition is ubiquitous...

commercialization of our privacy... once it's gone, it's gone.

[ErikJ]

2. Private security contractors only loyalty is to the dollar NOT the country.

Good line by Ed Schultz this morn,.

[big_dog]

3. it began long ago

were living in 1984 already

[tblue]

4. 15 Minutes of Hate, Newspeak, perpetual war

It's all real and getting realer. And with the way we are being monitored, it's only a matter of time til they develop Room 101, customized for each of us. Sometimes I have to not think about it because the truth is just too frightening.

[Puzzledtraveller]

7. ^^ditto^^

[geek tragedy]

5. We live in a surveillance society, so the surveillance state is logical formality nt

[askeptic]

6. The complacency of most makes it also feel like Brave New World

along with several other things that are happening, including the stratification of our society...

[Earth_First]

8. Yet a recent Gallup Poll states that a majority support NSA survellience...

The stupid is dumfounding!

[hoodunit]

10. It just makes me glad I'm an old fart

and won't have to deal with the inevitable crap much longer. Isn't that pathetic?

[Quantess]

11. It's good to be alive right now.

But in 50 years maybe not so much...?

Sad to say, the thought of the future does not sound as bright as it really ought to.

I don't like to be a naysayer. I used to be full of (maybe naive) optimism but that dried up within me for the past 15 years or so.