RobotToasterGeorge Orwell's 1984 purged from school library by AI 'Big Brother'
UnderpantsWeevilBroke: Using an AI to arbitrarily blacklist books based on a black box algorithm
Woke: Banning 1984 because it’s capitalist propaganda written and published by war criminals.
epicshepichWhen I read it, I was frustrated that it was a socialist dystopia, but I think it holds up as a valid critique of surveillance-state authoritarianism, regardless of the x-coordinate on the political compass.
Specifically Stalinist dystopia
Orwell was a socialist
Nah, he was a great anti-Stalinist. Sure he had some flaws, but the list was mostly of Stalinist sympathizers and people unfit for counterpropaganda.