Actually, they talk about that in the PodCast; everyone having a device that can shoot video that's the size of their palm is just as scary to the 70s kid as the government stuff. There's no reason to think your drunk rant on why the Holocaust wasn't such a big deal (that you were trying to be funny but failing because you were drunk) may not be posted to the Internet and then become an out of context viral sensation that turns you into the poster child for Holocaust deniers. Which will almost certainly hurt your dating prospects, if nothing else.
It could be argued that the new technologies don't even the playing field between Little and Big Brother; it just means that are that many more Big Brothers out there. Heck, this kind of Big Brother could be worse; the old Big Brother had a motivation (power), but the new Big Brother just kind of strikes at random.
Actually, they talk about that in the PodCast; everyone having a device that can shoot video that's the size of their palm is just as scary to the 70s kid as the government stuff. There's no reason to think your drunk rant on why the Holocaust wasn't such a big deal (that you were trying to be funny but failing because you were drunk) may not be posted to the Internet and then become an out of context viral sensation that turns you into the poster child for Holocaust deniers. Which will almost certainly hurt your dating prospects, if nothing else.
It could be argued that the new technologies don't even the playing field between Little and Big Brother; it just means that are that many more Big Brothers out there. Heck, this kind of Big Brother could be worse; the old Big Brother had a motivation (power), but the new Big Brother just kind of strikes at random.