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Orwell's '1984' shows us how to fight today's totalitarians
June 11, 2024 | 7:13pmAšmericans still read George Orwellās āNineteen Eighty-Four,ā 75 years after it was first published on June 8, 1949.
China 'mindreading' device can detect when men watch porn: report
June 23, 2022 | 11:24amChinese researchers claim to have patented a device that is capable of "reading a man'ļ·ŗs mind" and detecting when he is watching porn, according to a report The proš„totype helmet...
How China uses Internet trolls to help coverį©į©į©į©į©į©ā¤ā¤ā¤ā¤į©ā¤ā¤ā¤ā¤į©ā¤ā¤ā¤ā¤į©š±į©į©į© up its atrocities
December 16, 2020 | 6:44pmThe greatest benefit to Big Techās otherwise dubious influence over our lives is that itās impossible for the worldās human-rąµ²ights violators to hide their crimes. Information that years ago would...
ź¦¬ Refugees from tyranny agree: Authoritarian threat in America nš²ow is from the left
September 28, 2020 | 8:38pmLeft-wing hysterics with major media platforms have for years been shrieking that President Trump is about to install a fascist dictź§atorship any minute. Meanwhile, unheard immigrants from the Soviet bloc...
Bloomberg News' shameful sellout to Beijing
April 14, 2020 | 7:37pmFor shame: Bloomberg News spikeš ŗd a story on Chinaās super-rich and their government ties back in 2014 ā then forced the reporter to sign a non-disclosure agreement about it and...
Now the PC commissars are gunning for 'Stranger Things'
July 17, 2019 | 8:16pmHow ź¦is cultural orthodoxy enforced? According to some, cultural orthodoxy emanates invisibly from the powerful as a means of reinforcing and cementing their control over society.š But you donāt need...
China's new 'social credit system' is a dystopian nightmare
May 18, 2019 | 11:39amImagine calling a friend. Only instead of hearing a ring tone you hear a police siren, and then aā voice intoning, āBe careful in your dealings with this person.ā Would...
Never trust a tyrant's tale
July 2, 2017 | 10:16pmThirty-three years ago, Soviet dissident Yuli Edelstein was arrested by the KGB and sent to the gulag for committing the ācrimeā of being a religious Jew anš¶d a Hebrew teacher...šÆ.
Sorry: 'Handmaid's Tale' tells us nothing about Trump's America
April 28, 2017 | 8:44pmThe fulsomely praised new Hulu series āThe Handmaidās Tale,ā whichš ŗ started streaming Wednesday, taš§kes place in a chilling near-future where women are reduced to wombs on feet, gays are publicly...