In fact, whenever you bring it up in a debate about surveillance, people instantaneously dismiss it as inapplicable, and what they say is, "Oh, well in '1984,' there were monitors in people's homes, they were being watched at every given moment, and that has nothing to do with the surveillance state that we face."
Sempre que ele vem à tona num debate sobre vigilância, as pessoas instantaneamente falam que não tem nada a ver, dizendo: "Ah, em "1984", havia monitores nas casas das pessoas. Elas eram observadas a todo instante, e isso não tem nada a ver com o estado de vigilância em que vivemos".