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[–]SilenceThem_Consume 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It's not censorship. It's applicatin of rules.

Ah yes, it's merely orders. I am certain that you would return an escaping slave so that you could continue following the rules set in your time.

The Police have unlimited power to enforce the Party’s views and ideologies and if anything goes against these ideologies or is not in line with the Party’s views, they are classed as illegal.

The people are regulated and oppressed by a certain set of beliefs, ideologies and even ‘rules’.

the Party tries to control the population’s behaviour by inventing ‘Newspeak’ a new language where the main tactic is to limit words to restrict independent thoughts and this ‘dumbing down’ will make disobedience unthinkable

...law is always based on a ‘body’ that gives it its power and authority. Whether that body is coherent or ethical, is a completely different question.

Wherever this power derives its legitimacy and whether it is morally acceptable, is a much different question.

Excerpted from a famous novel of what happens when you let tims go wild.