List of websites blocked in the United Kingdom

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[–]Site_rly_sux 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

I think I missed the chapter of 1984 where someone tabulated and organised an encyclopedia page of banned content.

Doesn't seem very 1984, at all, really. Can you please get the equivalent page for China and Ruzzia?

Aaah, here we go, this is the 1984 I was rozkomnadzor for

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_websites_blocked_in_Russia

[–]jet199 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

1984 is not supposed to be a "how to" guide.

[–]newguy 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

It's like all the peons who read 1984 didn't get the message, and the people who did get the message used it to gain power. And wasn't orwell in a ton of secret societies? Maybe it was a "how to" guide after all.

Maybe we have to read 1984 in school so that we are traumatized by it, and it lays the groundwork in our minds for what is currently happening in the real world. Perhaps 1984 is predictive programming, not a warning. Remember what happens at the end?

Winston learns to love big brother.

How about Brave New World? We had to read that too. The protagonist gets cast away to an island and left to die.

Warnings, or predictive programming? Do you believe school's purpose was to prepare us for the real world, or to mold us in to compliant citizens and workers?

If you've studied how the Prussian Schooling system, which was designed purely to engineer obedience, was re-applied in an industrial setting to create the US school system, you'd know the answer.

[–]GB43[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

How about Brave New World? We had to read that too. The protagonist gets cast away to an island and left to die.

"How about Brave New World? We had to read that too. The protagonist gets cast away to an island and left to die."

Sounds only slightly worse than the US healthcare system.