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You know, the reason “Big Brother Is Watching” is such a famous phrase is because it used to be viewed as paranoid fear mongering to suggest that the government would use some kind of high tech surveillance equipment to monitor the entire population. The book 1984 was viewed as beyond the pale, an impossibility that the American people would never tolerate. In the 1980s Americans used to joke, “In Soviet Russia, Television Watches You!” Even resembling Big Brother was the hallmark of a bad idea, and besides “it could never happen here” and “America is the land of the free” and some other anxiety reducing cliché. Well… let’s challenge those clichés.