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24 Mar 2010, 6:53 pm by David Bernstein
George Orwell, 1984 I read this book in seventh grade and wrote a book report on it. [read post]
23 Aug 2007, 12:43 pm
In a world where we’re being spied on by government satellites, you gotta love the next part,Such a holding embraces George Orwell’s dystopia, where personal rights are subverted by the government. [read post]
22 Mar 2012, 9:25 pm by Eugene Volokh
(If your answer to all these questions is “yes”, I suggest you reread George Orwell’s “1984?.) [read post]
22 Jun 2019, 9:08 am by Dan Harris
 Because, as George Orwell said, “if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. [read post]
25 Mar 2012, 9:41 am by Stewart Baker
  The privacy groups were not much in evidence, and their arguments about the dangers of a giant database were undercut by the fact that four of the five data-sharing networks needed to implement REAL ID are already in operation, with George Orwell nowhere in sight. [read post]
24 Mar 2012, 5:52 pm by Jason Shinn
  Second, asking or requiring an employee or applicant's social media log-in information reminds me of the fictional character "Big Brother" from George Orwell's novel 1984. [read post]
25 Jan 2009, 8:10 am
” This straw man is easier for Cohen to respond to, although the closest he comes to an actual answer is assigning the school administrators some George Orwell, Politics and the English Language, for summer reading. [read post]
3 May 2009, 5:36 am
It is not my fight, but it smacks of the New Speak in George Orwell's dystopian novel, 1984, in which the government simply changes history to match its current needs. [read post]
29 Jul 2010, 3:57 am by SHG
The "merits" and "remedial" opinions in Booker satisfy George Orwell’s definition of "Doublethink. [read post]
6 Oct 2009, 2:39 pm
[Footnote on the Amazon/George Orwell controversy omitted.] [read post]
5 Oct 2023, 8:20 am by Chris Castle
Senators Richard Blumenthal and Marsha Blackburn are continuing to beat the drum on TikTok’s connection to the Chinese Communist Party and the Ministry of State Security–because the TikTok story is straight out of the mind of George Orwell. [read post]
18 May 2024, 4:02 am by SHG
George Orwell famously wrote that “to see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle. [read post]
11 Sep 2024, 8:39 am by Eugene Volokh
In the end, the goal of a community control sanction cannot be to ensure that defendants, like Winston from George Orwell's 1984, "must love Big Brother. [read post]
8 Apr 2023, 3:30 am by Rechtsanwalt Martin Steiger
Mit Blick auf das neue Identifikationssystem scheint der Bundesrat jedenfalls zu versuchen, den Begriff «Gesichtsbildabgleich» anstelle von «Gesichtserkennung» zu etablieren.Die Wortschöpfung erinnert an die Bezeichnung «Government Software», kurz «GovWare», für Bundestrojaner und andere staatliche Schadsoftware und weckt Erinnerungen an Neusprech in «1984» von George Orwell: «Neusprech… [read post]
10 Jan 2018, 4:38 am by SHG
George Orwell appreciated this manipulation of language, and warned against it. [read post]
18 Dec 2018, 4:20 am by SHG
What I see are NYPD officers who were put in a position that partly resembles what George Orwell once described in his essay about his time as a colonial police officer in Burma. [read post]
14 Jan 2007, 9:47 am
  Power is politically and morally neutral.But note this: in the sixth year of the Presidency of George W. [read post]
27 Feb 2018, 8:27 am by Elizabeth A. Khalil
SmithKline Beecham (and a string of other sources, including George Orwell), the court emphasized that an agency “should not change an interpretation in an adjudicative proceeding where doing so would impose new liability on individuals for past actions which were taken in good-faith reliance on agency pronouncements. [read post]
2 Dec 2019, 9:00 am by Steve Lubet
  But no one is really buying this book for a refresher on Strunk & White, or even an update on George Orwell’s “Politics and the English Language,” first published in 1946. [read post]