If you want to understand what's going on in the world, read Orwell. The telescreens and ubiquitous closed circuit cameras are only the obvious dystopian realisations of 1984.
NewSpeak? All around us (eg "Brexit", "PREFU"). State censorship enforced by corporate media owners has made each DataFarm platform into its own Minitrue, even web search has its own memory hole. Ideas declared thoughtcrime. Examples of Two Minutes Hate abound; Corbyn, Stallman, Greenwald, David Roviks, Michel Bauwens...
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