John O’ConnellIrony: That this is in the square outside the HQ of the BBC.
Heliograph@jdpoc yes, painful too
Toni Widmo@jdpoc They probably see it as the right of the ruling elite to tell us plebs what we don't want to hear, to force feed us the ruling class propaganda.
Jamie
Juggling With Eggs@jdpoc that’s Orwell isn’t it?
Sue@jdpoc
Deeply ironic then that the BBC allowed themselves to be manipulated by the Tories in their attempts to silence dissent.
Deeply ironic then that the BBC allowed themselves to be manipulated by the Tories in their attempts to silence dissent.
Bitnik@jdpoc
I had to look it up just to check, though the profile of the statue is pretty familiar. Apparently recovered from an unpublished preface to Animal Farm. George Orwell. "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear."
I had to look it up just to check, though the profile of the statue is pretty familiar. Apparently recovered from an unpublished preface to Animal Farm. George Orwell. "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear."
Sunflower Björnskalle 🌻@jdpoc it was always just propaganda
James Harrison@jdpoc More than that - it's literally carved into the wall of New Broadcasting House itself.
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