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In the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, thoughtcrime is the offense of thinking in ways not approved by the ruling Ingsoc party. In the official language of Newspeak, the word crimethink describes the intellectual actions of a person who entertains and holds politically unacceptable thoughts; thus the government of The Party controls the speech, the actions, and the thoughts of the ...
[4] [5] In contemporary usage, the term Thought Police and variants thereof often refers to the actual or perceived enforcement of ideological orthodoxy in the political life of a society. In North Korea , the Ministry of State Security ( MSS ) was established by the Kim dynasty in 1973 and was known by its nickname as ( North Korea's Thought ...
Facing a life sentence Valle argued it was a fantasy and had no real plans, which led to a stunning reversal. Valle, Violet Blue , Joseph DeMarco, Gary Allen, James A. Cohen, Daniel Engber, David Greenfield, Dareh Gregorian, Alan Dershowitz , Robert Kolker , Chris Kraft, Erin Murphy, Laurie Penny , Jane Rosenberg, Lee Rowland, Maria Tatar , and ...
A widely seen thread on the social media platform X, formerly Twitter, claimed that “a man was convicted for standing still, silently praying, in England”. Other posts about the same court ...
Pre-crime (or precrime) is the idea that the occurrence of a crime can be anticipated before it happens.The term was coined by science fiction author Philip K. Dick, and is increasingly used in academic literature to describe and criticise the tendency in criminal justice systems to focus on crimes not yet committed.
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In real life it is not possible because we do not have such a technology (yet) to look with necessary precision inside people's brains. But maybe some day it will become reality. I think the first group of people to undergo such procedure of thought controlling would be pedophiles because there always is strong social acquiescence in these matters.
Sometimes, real life is stranger than fiction — and it's even better when one leads to the other. Bestselling author Tova Mirvis got the idea for her new slow-burn, literary thriller from the ...