Orwell got the surveillance operator wrong — and that's the real lesson

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Orwell imagined a state monopoly on surveillance: the telescreen in your living room, the Thought Police reading your diary. But the actual surveillance apparatus of the 21st century was not built by the Ministry of Love — it was built by platform companies whose users volunteer the data and whose business model is…

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