A year ago, we wrote this… //

As brilliant as Orwell was, something continuously struck me as incorrect as I read 1984.

Orwell’s government – was extraordinarily competent in its totalitarian imposition of technological power.

“In Reality – no government in the history of man has ever been even remotely close to that competent.

“For Orwell’s Big Brother dystopia to become Reality – Big Government would need private sector help.

“Enter private sector Big Tech.

“Big Tech has delivered much of the technology Orwell envisioned….

“(I)t’s Big Tech doing the spying – not Big Government….

“The ONLY way Big Government can impose Big Brother – is to partner with Big Tech.”

Flash forward to now. We’re in the midst of the titanically stupid China Virus shutdown.

And every tyrant – at every level of government – is not letting the crisis go to waste. //

“Witnesses at Thursday’s Senate Commerce ‘paper hearing’ on big data and the coronavirus pandemic largely agreed on one major point: The outbreak underscores the need for a federal privacy law.”