It is a term that began by novel <1984>(1903 ~ 1950) of the famous novelist George Orwell for sociological satire and insight of the UK from. As positive meaning, for the purposes of the good, it means protection monitoring to take care of society. However, in a negative meaning, refers to the means of social control of those in power who were grounded in conspiracy theories.
Big Brother that may be justified in the sense that they prevent social hardship have huge social disadvantage in fact. In novel <1984>, Big Brother is constantly monitoring the social through the tele-screen. Around the society, it is installed to the toilet further, which indicates so formidable infringement of privacy. Speaking of re-interpreted as conspiracy theory, it can be completed by information collection of Big Brother that the subject of strong power as the administrators of the power by enticing people and distorting the information.
It looked very unrealistic entity of Big Brother in the past. However, a monitoring system much like that in the novel has began to be realized in the actual society led to the modern. In the United States, it is in a situation which that Department of Homeland Security is installed that is comparable to the scale of the Ministry of National Defense, and Patriot Act was passed to legally protect their monitoring behavior.
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