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The Ministry of Truth, the Ministry of Peace, the Ministry of Love, and the Ministry of Plenty are the four ministries of the government of Oceania in the 1949 dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, by George Orwell.[1]

    The Ministry of Peace concerns itself with war, the Ministry of Truth with lies, the Ministry of Love with torture and the Ministry of Plenty with starvation. These contradictions are not accidental, nor do they result from ordinary hypocrisy: they are deliberate exercises in doublethink.
    — Part II, Chapter IX

The use of contradictory names in this manner may have been inspired by the British and American governments; during the Second World War, the British Ministry of Food oversaw rationing (the name "Ministry of Food Control" was used in World War I) and the Ministry of Information restricted and controlled information, rather than supplying it; while, in the U.S., the War Department was abolished and replaced with the "National Military Establishment" in 1947 and then became the Department of Defense in 1949, right around the time that Nineteen Eighty-Four was published.[2][3][4]
Ministry of Truth

Senate House, London, where Orwell's wife worked at the Ministry of Information, was his model for the Ministry of Truth


(Newspeak: Minitrue) is the ministry of propaganda. As with the other ministries in the novel, the name Ministry of Truth is a deliberate misnomer because in reality it serves the opposite: it is responsible for any necessary falsification of historical events. However, like the other ministries, the name is also apt because it decides what "truth" is in Oceania.

As well as administering "truth", the ministry spreads a new language amongst the populace called Newspeak, in which, for example, "truth" is understood to mean statements like 2 + 2 = 5 when the situation warrants. In keeping with the concept of doublethink, the ministry is thus aptly named in that it creates/manufactures "truth" in the Newspeak sense of the word. The book describes the doctoring of historical records to show a government-approved version of events.

freediver wrote on Apr 21^st, 2024 at 12:39pm:



No problem - but should they share Govt. mistruth?

https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/elon-musks-x-pledges-to-fight-australian-wat...





X, formerly Twitter, says it will fight Australia's online safety regulator over an order to take down posts after a church bishop was stabbed in Sydney.

Social media platform X has pledged to fight Australia's online safety watchdog over posts about a stabbing at a western Sydney church
.

The platform's Global Government Affairs team on Saturday said Australia's eSafety Commissioner had ordered it to remove posts that commented on the attack.

But they said the posts did not violate X's rules on violent speech.

The team claimed the regulator demanded X "globally withhold these posts or face a daily fine of $785,000".

"X believes that eSafety's order was not within the scope of Australian law and we complied with the directive pending a legal challenge," the Global Government Affairs team posted on Saturday.

"While X respects the right of a country to enforce its laws within its jurisdiction, the eSafety Commissioner does not have the authority to dictate what content X's users can see globally.

"We will robustly challenge this unlawful and dangerous approach in court."

The commissioner has only said it was considering whether further regulatory action was warranted,

Why do Govts. want to control what you think what your feel and what you say?
It takes the term control freak to a new dimension.
Are we just robots to be programmed for them?

chimera wrote on Apr 21^st, 2024 at 4:05pm:



I mean - do they want to help you blow your nose and wipe your arse too?

What more do they want to be involved in?

freediver wrote on Apr 21^st, 2024 at 4:20pm:



I also hear that most of the mice that were injected with mRNA vaccines died.   

Do you think the Govt. deserve to be trusted now?
Isn't your own forum a good place to post different views?
What if the Govt. told you what people were allowed to say here?

freediver wrote on Apr 21^st, 2024 at 4:45pm:



The poor mice.
What about the poor people too -
those who have died from the vaccines?
Also those who are maimed for life and who will die sooner than they should?
Do you think the Govt. deserve to be trusted now?