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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Authoritarian efforts at total control, as of a person or nation.
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It is also a little too close for comfort, in its setting of a troubling digital-age Big Brotherism, which is in some respects very plausible - particularly in Britain, which reportedly has 4 million government cameras trained on its citizens, in the name of local and national security.
The Seattle Times 2008
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President Reagan likened a 1981 proposal to the biblical "mark of the beast," and President Clinton dismissed a similar plan for smacking of Big Brotherism.
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President Reagan likened a 1981 proposal to the biblical "mark of the beast," and President Clinton dismissed a similar plan for smacking of Big Brotherism.
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President Reagan likened a 1981 proposal to the biblical "mark of the beast," and President Clinton dismissed a similar plan for smacking of Big Brotherism.
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With about half the global internet search market, it threatens enhanced "corporate or even official Big Brotherism."
Internet Threatened by Censorship, Secret Surveillance, and Cybersecurity Laws 2009
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Courrielche, a stalwart of the paranoid tendency in American politics, decided asking artists to volunteer to to advance aims such as clean energy and healthy communities was a symbol of creeping Big Brotherism.
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Nayar, making the disclaimer that he wants no part of Big Brotherism, outlines a scenario where, using his system, you could get clues about the location of a terrorist by looking at a picture taken at his hideout.
MEET THE EYE CAM 2007
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Government and business are walking into a world of Big Brotherism hand and hand.
Spy Chips, installed in your baby and in everything you buy. 2007
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Those who object to this blatant Big Brotherism are met with the fallacious accusation that they are in favor of young kids being exposed to pornography and with the equally fallacious fascist threat that if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear.
Hullabaloo 2006
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Those who object to this blatant Big Brotherism are met with the fallacious accusation that they are in favor of young kids being exposed to pornography and with the equally fallacious fascist threat that if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear.
Hullabaloo 2006
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