China has a very Orwellian reason for banning typing "1984" on social media, while allowing people to read Nineteen Eighty-Four

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@geoduck

It should be pointed out, in the novel, it’s the Proles who are mostly left to their own devices while the upper(ish) class is the one getting ruthlessly scanned and controlled.

Propaganda is likewise focused on Party members, because, in the Party’s view, they are the only people who are politically aware and therefore need to be indoctrinated. The Party views the proles as cretins incapable of holding political opinions.