I'm Bill Moyers. It's good to have your ear.

This week on Warriors & Company.

How do we protect our privacy when big government and big business become big brother?

Lawrence Lessig says we have to fight back.

What the hell is being a member of Congress for?

If not to at least change the conditions

under which all of us have a completely rational reason to say that institution is bought

and I don't believe what they're doing. Recognize in a world of terrorism, the government's going

to be out there trying to protect us. But let's make sure that they're using tools or technology

that also

protects the privacy side of what they should be protecting. You know, that's the analysis

since the Magna Carta about how we protect liberty. What do we put into place to check government

officials to make sure that when they behave, they behave in a way that respects our most fundamental

values.

Thanks for joining us.

We were warned.

More than 60 years ago, George Orwell in his novel, 1984, described a society whose inhabitants

were called perpetually in the unblinking eye of Big Brother, an all-encompassing

government gaze from which there was no escape. Even earlier, Aldous Huxley's brave

new world invoked the vision of citizens' bred for complacency, willing to be subjugated

in exchange for the mindless pleasures of drug-induced self-gratification.

Just think. Orwell and Huxley wrote before Google, Facebook, Apple, Skype, Yahoo, and Microsoft,

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