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The only way to enforce Copyright-as-is is to institute a massive police state big-brotherish culture that watches everything we say and do.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Outrageous Treaty Nonsense, or The Copyright Tail Wagging the Internet Dog 2010
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There's always something unashamedly kid brotherish to Cory Arcangel's art.
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The only way to enforce Copyright-as-is is to institute a massive police state big-brotherish culture that watches everything we say and do.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Outrageous Treaty Nonsense, or The Copyright Tail Wagging the Internet Dog 2010
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When I used to routinely ask applying law students in interviews what they thought of this idea simply to test their ability to think on their feet, about 98 percent would object to it as coercive, big-brotherish, un-American!
Mark Green: Mandatory Voting? Automatic Registration? How Un-American! 2009
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It would feel a lot less big-brotherish if we the people were the ones running the government...
Identifying ID Card Flaws glyn moody 2007
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So, Chavez got a good crowd and interesting pictures to promote his new party for those who are into this sort of things, even if the picture I chose here as a chilling big-brotherish feel.
Nuremberg at El Poliedro: how can dialogue be possible in Venezuela? 2007
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I've argued though, Howie, that the problem with this is, that it accuses Hillary Clinton of being big brotherish, when it's Obama who, in fact, is using this kind of empty rhetoric, and Hillary is actually using video online to talk about issues.
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LEE: That might be a little too big brotherish for some folks.
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"Only I've been rather wishing, lately, that Peter wasn't such an unflattering, big-brotherish, every-day-neighbour sort of person."
Sisters Kathleen Thompson Norris 1923
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"That sounds patronizing and elder-brotherish," she told him.
The Brimming Cup Dorothy Canfield Fisher 1918
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