Survey: Many Americans say 'Big Brother' is here
Source: AP
Posted: 12:14 AM
Last Updated: 8 hours and 32 minutes ago
By: BARBARA ORTUTAY, AP
NEW YORK - There's little wonder why George Orwell's novel "1984" is seeing a resurgence in sales.
More than half of Americans polled in a survey released Thursday said they agreed with the statement "We are really in the era of Big Brother."
The survey from the University of Southern California was conducted last year, before recent revelations of large-scale, secret government surveillance programs. Yet it still found that some 35 percent of respondents agreed that "There is no privacy, get over it."
A growing number of Internet users said they are concerned about the government checking on their online activities, according to the survey. But even more people were worried about businesses doing the same.
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dkf
(37,305 posts)Last edited Mon Jun 17, 2013, 09:06 PM - Edit history (1)
Just wait til the light goes on.
JudyM
(29,251 posts)commercialization of our privacy... once it's gone, it's gone.
ErikJ
(6,335 posts)Good line by Ed Schultz this morn,.
big_dog
(4,144 posts)were living in 1984 already
tblue
(16,350 posts)It's all real and getting realer. And with the way we are being monitored, it's only a matter of time til they develop Room 101, customized for each of us. Sometimes I have to not think about it because the truth is just too frightening.
Puzzledtraveller
(5,937 posts)geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)askeptic
(478 posts)along with several other things that are happening, including the stratification of our society...
Earth_First
(14,910 posts)The stupid is dumfounding!
hoodunit
(4 posts)and won't have to deal with the inevitable crap much longer. Isn't that pathetic?
Quantess
(27,630 posts)But in 50 years maybe not so much...?
Sad to say, the thought of the future does not sound as bright as it really ought to.
I don't like to be a naysayer. I used to be full of (maybe naive) optimism but that dried up within me for the past 15 years or so.