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Aug 07

Orwell VS. Huxley Infographic

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This infographic — created by Column Five for Akorn Entertainment — looks at the growingconcern 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 the flood of irrelevant and trivial information of the Western world.

via Visual News

The idea that these methods can be broken down by different parts of the world is illusory at best. Fact is, most countries use both the carrot and the stick.

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