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telescreen, Winston Smith was always mindful of that possibility: "If you made unexpected movements, they yelled at you from the telescreen." Such surveillance methods allowed the Thinkpol and the Ministry of Love (Miniluv) to become universally feared by the citizens of Oceania, especially by the members of the Outer Party, which includes Winston Smith.
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means the faculty of stopping short, as though by instinct, at the threshold of any dangerous thought. It includes the power of not grasping analogies, of failing to perceive logical errors, of misunderstanding the simplest arguments if they are inimical to Ingsoc, and of being bored or repelled by
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The mind should develop a blind spot whenever a dangerous thought presented itself. The process should be automatic, instinctive. Crimestop, they called it in Newspeak. . . . He set to work to exercise himself in crimestop. He presented himself with propositions—'the Party says the Earth is flat',
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Various groups such as human rights organizations, journalists and activists have likened the Iranian regime, along with the IRIB and IRGC, to an Orwellian government. This sentiment is due to reports of the Iranian government distributing death sentences for the crime of "advertising against the
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The universal, physical presence of the telescreen, in public and in private spaces, exerted psychological pressure upon each citizen of Oceania to presume that they were under constant Thinkpol surveillance, and thus in danger of detection and arrest as a thought criminal; thus, whenever near a
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denotes the citizen's instinctive desire to rid himself of unwanted, incorrect thoughts (personal and political), the discovery of which, by the Thinkpol, would lead to detection and arrest, transport to and interrogation at Miniluv (Ministry of Love). The protagonist,
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holy system". “Zabane eghelab”, an Iranian phrase that translates to “tongue of revolution”, is used to describe the rhetoric used by the government to maintain ideological dominance over the population and is often compared to newspeak.
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describes the intellectual actions of a person who entertains and holds politically unacceptable thoughts; thus the government of The Party controls the speech, the actions, and the thoughts of the citizens of Oceania.
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describes the personal beliefs that are contrary to the accepted norms of society; thus thoughtcrime describes the theological practices of disbelief and
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Moreover, from the perspective of Oceania's principal enemy of the state, in the history book
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Any sound that Winston made, above the level of a very low whisper, would be picked up by the
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any train of thought which is capable of leading in a heretical direction.
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Expression for unorthodox thoughts in the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four
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Swaine, Lucas (2016). "Freedom of Thought as a Basic Liberty".
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is the offense of thinking in ways not approved by the ruling
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Kretzmer, David (2000), Kershman, Hazan Francine (ed.),
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Index

Thought crime
CrimethInc.
Thoughtcrime (disambiguation)
Nineteen Eighty-Four
Ingsoc
Newspeak
idolatry
ideology
Thought Police
Oceania
audio-visual surveillance
offender profiling
English Socialism
legitimate
the Party
telescreens
body language
telescreen
CrimeStoppers
Newspeak
Winston Smith
cognitive dissonance
The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism
Censorship
Freedom of thought
Internal sin
Mens rea
Pre-crime
Secret police
Thou shalt not covet

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