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		kleiba 3 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Review of 1984 by Isaac Asimov (1980) > those controlling the government kept themselves in power bybrute force, by distorting the truth, by continually rewriting history, by mesmerising the people generally Sound familiar?

kavalg 3 months ago [–]

> Computers and tyranny do not necessarily go hand in hand.

... but the latter may greatly benefit from the former

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