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Re:China’s facial-recognition systems crunch data from camer... by dgfgfdagasdfgfa on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @01:54PM (#14647617)
What an odd obsession with preventing crime with cameras from the culture that brought us 1984.
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Re:China’s facial-recognition systems crunch data from camer... by wamsachel on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @05:25PM (#14649606)
It's not odd at all when you consider what works of Orwell are cited in pop culture (1984, Animal Farm) and which ones are not (Homage to Catalonia)
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Re:China’s facial-recognition systems crunch data from camer... by jchien17 on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @06:56PM (#14650308)
Can you expand more? Is it the difference in opinion of the totalitarianism exhibited in 1984 vs. the anarchism from Homage?
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Re:China’s facial-recognition systems crunch data from camer... by wamsachel on Wednesday June 28, 2017 @03:34PM (#14657489)
His writings critical of the West go largely ignored in the West, which again isn't that surprising. For example his forward for Animal Farm was famously censored from publication.
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