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There is now a currency of fear and paranoia on which Western governments, particularly in the US and UK, trade in exchange for their citizens’ acquiescence to the ever-narrowing restriction of their civil rights.
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`How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork. It was even conceivable thay they watched everybody all the time'
(George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Penguin Modern Classics edition, 1989, p. 5)
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"Will average citizens share, along with the mighty, the right to access these universal monitors? Will common folk have, and exercise, a soverign power to watch the watchers?"
(David Brin, The Transparent Society, 1998, p. 9)
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