By the way, this false notion of freedom, it feels like it had been planted since at least the cold war. As more and more problems come to light, as a journalist from my country, Alexandre Pittoli, would say, “we thought we had (freedom), until we needed it”. But as another countryman, analyst Diogo Forjaz, would say, those that would benefit from those issues miscalculated the power of the internet.
I feel like the internet is rapidly on the way to lose its freedom-promoting advantages. Just another avenue for authoritarian propaganda and control. And even before that, it’s not like the internet’s lawless state in the early 2000s and 2010s were the hayday of left-of-center governance in most western countries.
In the US, it gets removed from libraries, but that’s not quite the same as banning it. No one is going to kick down your door, search your house, confiscate the book and possibly throw you in prison (or worse) for owning it. Might change soon, though.
On that point, wasn’t 1984 the book initially forbidden on both countries?
Not to my knowledge. The (largely real) artistic freedom offered by the USA was actually a major propaganda tool the US government used.
By the way, this false notion of freedom, it feels like it had been planted since at least the cold war. As more and more problems come to light, as a journalist from my country, Alexandre Pittoli, would say, “we thought we had (freedom), until we needed it”. But as another countryman, analyst Diogo Forjaz, would say, those that would benefit from those issues miscalculated the power of the internet.
I feel like the internet is rapidly on the way to lose its freedom-promoting advantages. Just another avenue for authoritarian propaganda and control. And even before that, it’s not like the internet’s lawless state in the early 2000s and 2010s were the hayday of left-of-center governance in most western countries.
Yes
In the US, it gets removed from libraries, but that’s not quite the same as banning it. No one is going to kick down your door, search your house, confiscate the book and possibly throw you in prison (or worse) for owning it. Might change soon, though.