📚 noun • entry_id 11502
Big Brother
Meanings (ES + gloss)
Gran Hermano
Unwarranted, invasive, and discreet surveillance, especially of a people by its government.
Some people are worried about marketing calls at dinnertime or junk mail or spam, while others are more concerned about Big Brother.
When one mentions the concepts of identity and governance in the same breath, a virtually autonomic response from many is the concern that a governmental big brother will soon be l…
Gran Hermano
Any omnipresent authority or figurehead representing oppressive control.
Holonym: the System
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, at the height of public concern over the emergence of a Big Brother society, privacy activism shared features in common with some of the hard-lin…
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