english: 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."
non_english: Ljudje ga celo označijo za slabo primerjavo v pogovoru o nadzoru in rečejo, da so tam ljudje imeli monitorje v stanovanjih in so bili opazovani ves čas, kar nima veze z današnjim nadzorom.