Talk:Big Brother

Gitmo
I'm not sure how much Gitmo is related to the Orwellian idea behind this. 1984 concerns itself specifically with a surveillance society. Extralegal detention is a related phenomenon in that it is a method of social control, but intrusive surveillance is not necessary for detention and vice versa. Would there be any objections to moving the Gitmo material to a larger article on arbitrary detention and authoritarianism?--MountainTiger 13:20, 25 July 2007 (CDT)

If memory serves me well it was a feature of 1984 so it could stay although it was legal -they made it so. Suggest you start the detention article (you'll do much better than I have I'm sure) & stick in links to each other? Keepthe faith 13:28, 25 July 2007 (CDT)

It just me...
Or does this sound like the name of the next CP Sysop. Locke Random 13:36, 25 July 2007 (CDT)


 * GITMO for sysop!! Keepthe faith 13:34, 25 July 2007 (CDT)
 * I meant Big Brother, but your version is equally amusing. Locke Random 13:37, 25 July 2007 (CDT)

Didn't you know? Big Brother's 'ALREADY' a sysop Keepthe faith 13:44, 25 July 2007 (CDT)

How come
Nobody has come up with the idea of "Big Sister"? 171.33.197.73 (talk) 16:35, 4 September 2013 (UTC)

Snark
You know, I'm really tempted to add some snark about the viewer of the tv show. Should I?

The issue
... is not the CCTV but in the interpreting of the vast quantities of information and non-information that it creates - some of which will only 'make sense' much later. (There is an advert in The Times in the late 1930s: a lecture to be given to The Hellenic Society by one J E.... Powell). 82.44.143.26 (talk) 15:47, 27 February 2015 (UTC)