“Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” ― George Orwell

  • jimmydoreisalefty@lemmy.worldOP
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    3 months ago

    do not want to hear

    The quote includes misinformation/disinformation, it is the part you “do not want to hear.”

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      3 months ago

      The problem with it is people are stupid and easily swayed

      If you think the quote is about protecting lies then you don’t understand Orwell

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        “Political language… is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.” – George Orwell

        “All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.” – George Orwell

        “The Ministry of Peace concerns itself with war, the Ministry of Truth with lies, the Ministry of Love with torture and the Ministry of Plenty with starvation. These contradictions are not accidental , nor do they result from from ordinary hypocrisy: they are deliberate exercises in doublethink” – George Orwell