Word: orwellian
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...webcams in six of its London establishments. They show live pictures on the Web from 6 p.m. until closing time every night. If the site proves popular the regulars in over 1,000 Whitbread pubs throughout the U.K. could soon be online. Far from being put off by this Orwellian intrusion, drinkers at places like the Tournament in London's Earls Court, famed haunt of antipodean backpackers, are taking advantage of the cameras. "We get a lot of Australians and tourists waving with signs saying 'Hello Mum' and 'Happy Birthday' to friends and family logged on back home," says manager...
...Sounds a little Orwellian...
...everybody is so enthusiastic. Representative Edward Markey (D., Mass.) promptly declared himself "appalled" and issued a statement peppered with words like "Orwellian" and "nightmare." The American Civil Liberties Union is calling for public hearings and has requested all documents relating to the surveillance. "It's chilling, the notion that 100,000 people were subject to video surveillance and had their identities checked by the government," says Barry Steinhardt, associate director of the A.C.L.U. "We think the rights of the fans in Tampa were violated...
Newspaper editorials decried the move as Orwellian. From Disney and Microsoft to a lowly Internet service provider in Oshkosh, Wis., competitors began turning up the heat. Separately, press accounts of AOL's take-no-prisoners approach to its business partners made the Internet entrepreneurs seem as predatory as the cable guys. By this fall, even the American Civil Liberties Union was claiming that the new company could be dangerous...
...somehow, the Santa myth seemed of a different order. Perhaps because he was somehow enmeshed in the solemn and serious Christmas holiday, or perhaps because Santa was portrayed as a puppet-master, controlling all-important material disbursement through an ambiguous moral system predicated on Orwellian observational techniques, Santa was someone who it was difficult to deny...