In fact, whenever you bring it up in a debate about surveillance, people instantaneously dismiss it as inapplicable, and what they say is, "Oh, well in '1984,' there were monitors in people's homes, they were being watched at every given moment, and that has nothing to do with the surveillance state that we face."
Αν αναφερθεί σε διάλογο περί παρακολούθησης, οι άνθρωποι αυτομάτως το απορρίπτουν ως ανεφάρμοστο, λέγοντας: «Στο 1984 υπήρχαν κάμερες μέσα στα σπίτια, τους παρακολουθούσαν κάθε λεπτό, κι αυτό δε μοιάζει με το εν λόγω καθεστώς επιτήρησης».