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  • The Arizona Republic ends reader commenting on azcentral.com stories

    01/26/2024 10:06:17 AM PST · by DallasBiff · 29 replies
    MSN ^ | 1/25/24 | Arizona Republic
    We feel strongly that public discussion and civil debate are crucial to our society. We know that you, our readers, know things that we don’t. You come from different backgrounds and have different experiences. We’re all better when we can hear one another and learn from different perspectives. That’s why the USA TODAY Network invested in extensive research and testing with the Center for Media Engagement before deciding to enable comments on our news sites in 2020. But for all their benefits, we also know that comment sections across the internet can quickly devolve when they’re left unmonitored. We wanted...
  • C.S.Lewis' "That Hideous Strength" Matches Orwell's "1984" As A Prognosticator Of The Perils Of Progressivism

    01/25/2024 8:43:43 PM PST · by SeekAndFind · 19 replies
    Epoch Times ^ | 01/25/2024 | Rob Natelson
    Many commentators have pointed out - correctly - that current “progressive” trends are reminiscent of George Orwell’s classic novel, “1984.” The parallels include manipulation of the English language, rewriting of history, suppression of dissent, and the omnipresence of administrative central government.In addition to which, there are the lightning-swift changes in the party line: For example, behavior traditionally deemed morally wrong or perverted suddenly becomes a theme for celebration. You’re a bigot if you don’t change instantly!Orwell wasn’t the only mid-20th century British writer to forecast those trends. Another was C.S. Lewis—particularly in his brilliant dystopia “That Hideous Strength.”Lewis is best...
  • New Film Adaptation Of '1984' To Feature Big Brother As The Good Guy

    01/13/2024 10:14:00 AM PST · by Navy Patriot · 32 replies
    The Bee ^ | January 12, 2024 | Staff
    HOLLYWOOD, CA — At a press conference this week, Sony producers announced the production of a new modern adaptation of George Orwell's dystopic novel 1984 that will feature the character of Big Brother as the good guy. "We felt like it was time to update the story to fit a modern audience," Sony producer Glen Maxwell told reporters. "After seeing how censorship and totalitarianism have grown in popularity over the past few years, we think Big Brother is probably a better protagonist than Winston Smith. Big Brother's insistence on absolute compliance fits better with current progressive ideals." The film will...
  • White House worked with YouTube to censor COVID-19 & vaccine 'misinformation': House Judiciary Committee

    11/30/2023 9:10:34 AM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 13 replies
    foxbusiness ^ | 11/30/2023 | Chase Williams
    FIRST ON FOX: The Biden administration worked together with employees of Google-owned YouTube in 2021 to target alleged "misinformation" relating to the COVID-19 virus and its vaccinations, according to documents obtained by FOX Business. The documents, acquired through a source close to the House Judiciary Committee, reveal a level of correspondence previously unknown to the American public, as President Biden and his aides sought to promote coronavirus vaccinations in efforts to quell the raging pandemic. The campaign was led by former White House Director of Digital Strategy Rob Flaherty, who has since left the administration to help run Biden’s 2024...
  • Face mask effectiveness: What science knows now [Orwell alert]

    10/30/2023 5:54:45 AM PDT · by logi_cal869 · 52 replies
    MSN ^ | 10/30/2023 | CBS News
    When the COVID-19 pandemic took off in 2020, so too did questions over the effectiveness of wearing a face mask to prevent the spread of the virus. Now, three and a half years later, what does the science say? In an interview for 60 Minutes, CBS News chief medical correspondent Dr. Jon LaPook posed that question to Linsey Marr, a Virginia Tech University professor specializing in aerosol science. "They are very helpful in reducing the chances that the person will get COVID because it's reducing the amount of virus that you would inhale from the air around you," Marr said...
  • 'I don't give a damn': Douglas Murray responds to article attacking George Orwell (title masking Ghaza comments to avoid censorship)

    10/29/2023 7:21:10 AM PDT · by Eleutheria5 · 11 replies
    Sky News ^ | 20/10/23 | Douglas Murray
    Author Douglas Murray has slammed an article labelling English novelist George Orwell as homophobic. “None of this stuff is at all unknown – George Orwell in human being, shocker!” he told Sky News Australia host Rita Panahi. “This is just an attempt to grab headlines by the author in question.” Mr Murray praised George Orwell for contributing some of the most important works of the 20th century, some of the most important journalism and some of the most important fiction. "Perhaps as a gay man, maybe I have some privilege to say this – I don’t give a damn that...
  • VIDEO: Bureaucratic Police Madness in British Exclusion Zone

    10/26/2023 2:53:06 PM PDT · by PJ-Comix · 13 replies
    Rumble ^ | October 26, 2023 | DUmmie FUnnies
    VIDEOWelcome to the British Exclusion Zone. A place where police are calmly just doing their jobs by routinely asking you absurd questions from a checklist. If you answer any question incorrectly you can be hit with a fine for having forbidden radioactive thoughts which includes praying in your mind. Nothing personal about it. The only motivation by the police is just to collect their pensions after 20 years of blindly following orders no matter how absurd.
  • In the Mouth of Marxist Madness

    10/24/2023 4:44:12 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 5 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 24 Oct, 2023 | J.B. Shurk
    Orwell’s ‘Ministry of Truth’ and Huxley’s recipe for enfeebling the masses in a hedonistic stupor have combined to usher in a twisted new era of Western totalitarianism. At the beginning of October, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán denounced the European Union’s 1984-inspired manipulation of language: “Brussels is creating an Orwellian world in front of our eyes. They buy and supply weapons through the European Peace Facility. They want to control the media through the Media Freedom Act. We didn’t fight the communists to end up in 1984!” The “Peace Facility” is responsible for transferring billions of dollars worth of artillery...
  • Telegraph inadvertently proves Orwell's point in hit piece worthy of 1984 Newspeak

    10/20/2023 7:32:58 PM PDT · by NetAddicted · 20 replies
    Twitchy.com ^ | 10/19/2023 | Tertullianis
    There are occasionally posts that get missed when they are initially posted. These are the posts that start out bad and get worse. This writer is unsure how this particular one made that list, given that he follows the Telegraph specifically because of their notoriously bad takes. George Orwell was ‘sadistic, misogynistic, homophobic and sometimes violent’ https://t.co/GAps4MA8pM — The Telegraph (@Telegraph) October 15, 2023, (*** followed by extremely informative Community Note! ***)The Telegraph tries to cancel Orwell for crimethink. Now, if you ask us, that may be the most ironic thing ever posted. Apparently, according to the book, Wifedom, by...
  • ‘Crazy!’: Elon Musk Says Leftist Media Ratings Firm ‘Should Be Disbanded Immediately’

    10/19/2023 1:37:55 PM PDT · by JV3MRC · 12 replies
    NewsBusters ^ | 10/19/2023 | Joseph Vazquez
    X owner Musk came out swinging against the leftist media hall monitor NewsGuard and called for the whole company to be “disbanded immediately.” Musk responded to criticism from WikiPedia co-founder Jimmy Wales who whined in a post Oct. 17 about the X platform allegedly removing “all the core features that made it even remotely possible to tell real journalists from fakes.” Through discussion on the X thread, Foundation For Freedom Online Executive Director Mike Benz pointed out to Musk that Wales was an advisor to the leftist biased NewsGuard, “which is knee deep in a plot to get gov’ts to...
  • These 14 American Cities Have A ‘Target’ Of Banning Meat, Dairy, And Private Vehicles By 2030

    08/23/2023 1:18:04 AM PDT · by spirited irish · 49 replies
    PatriotandLiberty ^ | 8/23 | Evita Duffy Alfonso
    Fourteen major American cities are part of a globalist climate organization known as the “C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group,” which has an “ambitious target” by the year 2030 of “0 kg [of] meat consumption,” “0 kg [of] dairy consumption,” “3 new clothing items per person per year,” “0 private vehicles” owned, and “1 short-haul return flight (less than 1500 km) every 3 years per person.” C40’s dystopian goals can be found in its “The Future of Urban Consumption in a 1.5°C World” report, which was published in 2019 and reportedly reemphasized in 2023. The organization is headed and largely funded...
  • Leftists Argue Government Censorship is the Highest Form of Speech

    07/11/2023 4:50:43 AM PDT · by Chad C. Mulligan · 21 replies
    Sult ^ | July 10, 2023 | Daniel Greenfield
    When Judge Terry Doughty issued an injunction in Missouri v. Biden that banned the government from “specifically flagging content or posts on social-media platforms and/or forwarding such to social-media companies urging, encouraging, pressuring, or inducing in any manner for removal, deletion, suppression”, all hell broke loose. Evelyn Douek, a Stanford law professor, formerly of the Knight First Amendment Institute, warned that preventing the government from colluding with corporations to censor citizens would have a “chilling effect on communication between the government and platforms.” In traditional free speech jurisprudence, ‘chilling effects’ were inflicted by the government, but Douek is worried that...
  • First edition '1984' returned to Oregon library after 65 years

    06/15/2023 9:09:27 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 43 replies
    UPI ^ | By Ben Hooper
    June 14 (UPI) -- An Oregon library said a copy of George Orwell's 1984 was recently returned 65 years late with an apologetic note from the patron. The Multnomah County Library in Portland said the first-edition book was returned recently with a note explaining the now-86-year-old patron had checked the tome out as a Portland State University student. "Sorry to be so tardy," the note reads. "At age 86, I wanted to finally clear my conscience." The library said there will be no overdue fees for the tome, as the facility is now fine-free.
  • From American Dream to Orwell's Nightmare

    06/06/2023 9:52:53 AM PDT · by Twotone · 13 replies
    Creators.com ^ | June 6, 2023 | Dan McCarthy
    Have schools stopped teaching "Nineteen Eighty-Four" — or are they now teaching it as a playbook for America to follow? Either way, nearly a third of Generation Z loves Big Brother. A survey by the Cato Institute finds 29% of Americans aged 18-29 respond affirmatively when asked, "Would you favor or oppose the government installing surveillance cameras in every household to reduce domestic violence, abuse, and other illegal activity?" In 1791, the utilitarian philosopher Jeremy Bentham proposed building a "panopticon" in which people's behavior could be monitored at all times. But Bentham's panopticon was meant to be a prison. A...
  • I Can't Believe We're Going to Start Talking about the 3rd Amendment

    06/06/2023 8:39:48 AM PDT · by RinaseaofDs · 66 replies
    Twitter ^ | 6/6/2023 | Greg Price
    Eric Adams is considering Churches and Private Residences for housing illegals. “It is my vision to take the next step to this faith-based locales and then move to a private residence... They have spare rooms."
  • Online Claims Misrepresent Washington Bill Aimed at Runaway Transgender Youth

    05/03/2023 4:43:51 PM PDT · by DallasBiff · 6 replies
    FactCheck.org ^ | 5/3/23 | Saranac Hale Spencer
    Q: Does a proposed law in Washington state say that the government can take children away from parents who don’t agree to gender transition surgery? A: No. Under the bill, licensed youth shelters no longer have to report the location of a runaway child to the child’s parents if the child is seeking gender-affirming or reproductive care. Instead, the shelters must notify the state’s child services department.
  • P.G. Wodehouse’s ‘Jeeves And Wooster’ Books Changed For ‘Unacceptable Prose’

    04/16/2023 2:42:15 PM PDT · by sphinx · 50 replies
    Deadline ^ | April 16, 2023 | Bruce Haring
    Penguin Random House has altered what it termed the “unacceptable prose” of author P.G. Wodehouse in new editions of his classic Jeeves and Wooster series. The publisher also warned readers of “outdated” terms in the revamped works, the Sunday Telegraph reports.
  • Texas state representative suggests banning "Lonesome Dove"

    Why it matters: "Lonesome Dove," the Pulitzer-winning novel by the late author Larry McMurtry, might be the most beloved book in Texas history. The big picture: The book about two retired Texas Rangers on an epic cattle drive during the last days of the West includes scenes of sexual assault and characters who are prostitutes. Driving the news: Patterson's READER Act would require vendors to rate books with sexual content before selling them to school districts. Patterson has argued the legislation is an attempt to rid school libraries of books inappropriate for children. Texas already bans more books than any...
  • So the CDC got hold of our phone data to spy on our whereabouts during COVID lockdowns?

    03/21/2023 5:17:11 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 18 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 20 Mar, 2023 | Monica Showalter
    Big Brother is closer than you think. According to this disturbing report in the Epoch Times: The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) purchased data from tracking companies to monitor compliance with lockdowns, according to contracts with the firms. The CDC paid one firm $420,000 and another $208,000. That bought access to location data from at least 55 million cellphone users. The contracts, approved under emergency review due to the COVID-19 pandemic, were aimed at providing the CDC “with the necessary data to continue critical emergency response functions related to evaluating the impact of visits to key points...
  • UK Counter-Terrorism Program Flags Shakespeare and ‘1984’ for ‘Encouraging Far-Right Sympathies’

    02/19/2023 5:50:12 PM PST · by Rummyfan · 32 replies
    PJ Media ^ | 19 Feb 2023 | Robert Spencer
    The UK’s Prevent program, which is supposed to be protecting the Sceptered Isle from terrorism, recently came under fire for treating actual Islamic terrorism as if it were a mental illness. But that doesn’t mean that Prevent has been wanting for terrorists: like its counterparts in the FBI, it has kept busy looking for “far-right extremists” and has now published a helpful guide to spotting those dangerous right-wingers. It turns out that they’re people who read Beowulf, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, 1984, and other great works of English literature. Gee, you’d almost get the idea that the Leftist culture warriors who...