RE MY COMMENTS HERE ON THINGS LIKE FACEBOOK FACE FARM ANIMAL BOOK 1984BOOK AND INVESTMENT DECISIONS OF SOME REGIMES RUSSIA ETC

Here is a comment from Randall Collins' blog on this topic:

'The multiple connections of the electronic media would not prevent such a development; and indeed a determined authoritarian government would find the Internet a convenient way of spying on people. Especially as the tendency of technology and capitalist consolidation in the media industries is to bring all the media together into one device, it would be possible for government super-computers to track considerable details about people’s lives, expressed beliefs, and their social connections. In George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-four (published in 1948), the television set is not something you watch but something that watches you, at the behest of the secret police. The new media make this increasingly easier for a government to do. Whether a government will do this or not, does not depend on the media themselves. It is a matter for the larger politics of the society. In that respect, too, the findings of sociology, both for micro-sociology and macro-sociology, remain relevant for the electronic network age of the future.'


Call it: 1984 book ANIMAL BOOK, STALIN BERG, STALIN MC BERGER, FACE FARM, ZUCKER FARM, 1984 BERG, ETC.,  ZUCKER BARN, MC BERGBURGER, MC ZUCKER BURG, MC DONALD BERG, MC DONALD BOOK, ETC., ETC., ETC.