As part of an 80-point plan to fight terrorism, France is setting up about a dozen “reinsertion and citizenship centers” around the country to reeducate young Muslims whom the government believes have been radicalized. Critics of the plan, which will round up people who have not been convicted of any crime, warn that it sounds […]

In the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, the government of Oceania has an entire Ministry that uses all forms of media to create a false reality. One of the tasks of the Ministry of Truth is to develop a new language called Newspeak which is meant to make thoughtcrime (thinking critically) impossible. The objective is to  significantly reduce the number of words in the English […]

In order to control millions of people totalitarian governments find it necessary to somehow prod their subjects into accepting that which is not true. Intelligent people will naturally see the truth and thereby comprehend when government lies to them — and so that’s the rub — how does totalitarian government deal with intelligent people when […]

OBE is a dumbed-down egalitarian scheme that stifles individual potential for excellence and achievement by holding the entire class to the level of learning attainable by every child. To accomplish this, children are placed in Politically Correct groups (race, ethnicity, gender, class) for “cooperative learning” and may be given a group grade instead of individual […]

        George Orwell prophesied much of the current doublespeak with his phrases such as: “war is peace.” Nobel Peace Prize winning president Obama, currently commander-in-chiefing of war in six so-called theaters — Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia — fits the bill, or more so runs up the bill, as a […]

In George Orwell’s chilling novel “1984,” Newspeak is a method of controlling the people’s language in order to keep them under Big Brother’s heavy hand. It is a devious, diabolical system using brainwashing and mind-control to allow only certain “approved” words and ideas to be used. We have the same thing in our society today. […]

As Verizon gets set to release the iPhone 4, it looks like its marketing and network management departments are honing their reworked Orwellian vocabularies, reminding us that in wireless network newspeak we need to forget words like “throttling” or “arbitrary broadband discrimination,” and replace them instead with new redefined terms like “VZOptimization.” Lest we commit […]

This infographic — created by Column Five for Akorn Entertainment — looks at the growing concern over keeping the Internet as a free and open platform by visualizing the concepts from George Orwell’s book 1984, and Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World; then comparing them to the current Internet censorship techniques of the Iranian government, and […]

Has texting taken over as the primary form of communication for today’s teens? We found our answer with this Infographic from Lab 42, which polled 500 social-networking Americans aged 13 to 21. The headline stat: 71% of the respondents preferred texting to phone calling. via Texting Teens: Typing Replaces Talking [INFOGRAPHIC].