The Thought Police Have Finally Arrived?

This Isn’t How The Internet Should Have Ended Up

The Internet should have created a world where every citizen matters, and where borders have little effect on freedom of speech and thought. But politicians have finally worked out how they can speak to every single citizen, and provide each of them with a message that matters to them. It is a world that doesn’t need doorstep politics anymore, and where a whole demographic can be reached in an instance.

Let’s think of a future “Big Brother” world (the George Orwell type and not the Channel 4 show), and where politicians communicate over a broadcast media. Our leader is Eve, and she runs the EveParty, and wants to talk to everyone with a personalised message, and so she records a message with gaps in it …

“The main issue I will address is [pause]”

When the message is broadcast, it is then matched to every citizen, so that they hear a message that matters to them. It is a world where citizens vote on a single issue, and whoever shouts loudest on the issue they are most worried about, will get the vote.

This system would be the dream of any politician, and where they could whisper your ear (and say whatever they wanted, so that they could influence you). But this type of political manipulation…