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A comment on Apple's “1984” Macintosh Commercial.

Re:Apple's “1984” Macintosh Commercial by Crontab on Friday August 06, 2021 @07:15AM (#28085587)
The thing I never expected is that corporations, not the government, would be the ones to build a pervasive surveillance system.
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Re:Apple's “1984” Macintosh Commercial by rufus_foreman on Friday August 06, 2021 @07:35PM (#28094050)
The creatures outside looked from government to corporation, and from corporation to government, and from government to corporation again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
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Re:Apple's “1984” Macintosh Commercial by hulitu on Friday August 06, 2021 @09:18AM (#28086740)
Corporation have learned that playing nice with the government will keep them in business. In Western Germany a lot of Nazi managers found work under the new American rulers.
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Re:Apple's “1984” Macintosh Commercial by ohhhhhh on Friday August 06, 2021 @04:07PM (#28092155)
who? name them
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Re:Apple's “1984” Macintosh Commercial by u4ria on Friday August 06, 2021 @07:51AM (#28085867)
What you are missing is that at some point they did become one and the same.

Give "world is businsess clip" from the movie Network a look..

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