A quickie. Comcast is trying to make Orwell’s vision of 1984 come true. They would like to put a camera in your cable box that would recognize your face. If it see’s you in the room you’d get target advertising tailored specifically for you. If it see’s a child it would automatically pop up parental controls to screen out naughty behavior. Interesting…. using morality to tighten control. Seems to be a trend in America.
What happened to the good ol’ US of A where each person had the freedom to choose what we wanted to watch or do, and the freedom to raise our children the way we see fit. Apparently that beautiful country is losing ground to the one where the government is mommy, daddy, and apparently, big brother. Philip K Dick and George Orwell are probably spinning in their graves right now.
Posted on March 19th, 2008 by phaedrus
Filed under: television
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