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[–] vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Oh yeah, and they’ve been at it for ages. Orwell and the others didn’t get his inspiration out of thin air.

I remember in the nineties they were calling centralized CCTV surveillance “the fifth utility”, after electricity, water, gas and telephone.

The Internet was already widely in use, but British MPs thought CCTV was more important I guess ;)

[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Internet was provided by telephone infrastructure, so it got lumped in with that.