2025 - Live action remaster of 1984

English writer George Orwell released Nineteen Eighty-Four, a dystopian novel describing a perception of the future with Great Britain, known as Airstrip One, becoming a province of the superstate Oceania. Oceania is led by Big Brother with constant government surveillance and the Thought Police with constant propaganda.
This war is taken advantage of by the Party with Oceania to support propaganda and gain power over their people.

George Orwell wrote 1984 shortly after the end of World War II where many believed World War III to be upcoming. From the 1943 Tehran Conference, Stalin, Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt discussed areas of influence and their influence on the world, coming to the visualisation of three superstates and their control on the globe.

Orwell made use of his personal experience within the war to further show the tragedy of the future life of 1984 alongside the events of the Blitz Campaign being made use of to shine a light on how the future could be with near constant attacks on London, seen in 1984, inspired by the war that they had recently suffered.

This war, alongside other conflicts, such as the Spanish Civil War, had caused him to be highly critical of authoritarian tendencies, especially within the leftist community. The Party displayed within 1984 is brutal, constantly paranoid and riddled with betrayal, inspired by the real life of the Great Purges of 1936-1938 in the USSR.

This was written as an early warning by Orwell as of their fear for what the future would entail, featuring totalitarianism as a main focus.
Totalitarianism: a system of government that is centralized and dictatorial and requires complete subservience to the state.

Many of you may see why this book is mentioned often recently, seen through the UK’s Online Safety Act 2025, America’s Kids Online Safety Act, Australia’s Online Safety Amendment and likely more. Whilst the word can be used with little reason, we are at risk of a dystopian society.
Dystopian: relating to or denoting an imagined state or society where there is great suffering or injustice.
The Online Safety Act, found in the same place that Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four is placed, is being used for governmental surveillance, infringing on privacy and restricting information from the population. This, paired with the extension of voting at as young as 16 years old allows for the government to censor important information about parties and the events in the UK from those that will inevitably decide the future of the UK.

Censorship has already been seen by the government through popular search browser Google, censoring information on Women’s Health (https://www.femtechworld.co.uk/features/female-health-focused-brands-report-experiencing-censorship-online/), the issues with the UK itself (I was forced to use a VPN writing this section as of many results being hidden from UK users) and even arresting people for social media posts by tracking them down and sending police straight to the door with reports of some arrests or threats by police to be for what they say of the UK Government. (https://mythdetector.com/en/uk-for-social-media-posts/)
These arrests in the UK over social media posts consist of over a thousand people arrested per month, as said by Georgian Dream MP Nino Tsilosani.

Along with this, hobbyist sites such as SpaceHey are being forced to shut down in the UK as a result of the Online Safety Act with the new requirements for social media pages to have full identification systems through ID or AI face recognition. Many of these systems are seen to have data leaks with a common company being used being Yoti which stores your information whilst having data breaches and risk of data breaches. Alongside this, Yoti, being an American company, doesn’t have the same protections as companies in the UK, further allowing for your data through facial recognition and biometric data or your actual ID to be exploited by companies.
Along with this, the use of ID also allows for the UK to track users down for any reason that they describe as good for the UK alongside monitoring people and allowing for restrictions of certain content for different groups. This is commonly seen through censorship of news sites sharing political information against the UK’s legislations being fully gone from search engines and requiring ID of a legal adult to view it (whilst 16 year olds who can’t see it are meant to vote for our future).

Along with this, many important sources such as medical help, often seen with information for young women are being censored because it displays inappropriate content, leaving many people unable to see the information they need and can cause people to be unable to see that something occurring to them is unhealthy, in extremer cases, risking the life of the restricted population.

For those of you with knowledge on the internet, especially restricted users, will be knowledgeable on VPNs and will be making use of them to bypass the restrictions of these legislations and while that seems an option to keep your data safe - many of the information from VPNs is stored and able to be acquired from warrants from governments and law enforcement.

Furthermore, the presence of VPNs makes these acts essentially useless with major spikes in use of VPN applications within the UK audience with ProtonVPN becoming #1 on the app store with over a 1400% surge in ProtonVPN signups and large surges in other VPNs. Though, this can cause even more privacy risks, with the ability for the government to request data stored by VPNs and the fact that many companies sell your data with free VPNs being a blatant view as when there is a free thing, the user is always the product. Some VPNs such as ProtonVPN however have a freemium system, with ProtonVPN having a warrant they had shared information on ProtonMail (their mailing service) through yet making a major effort for keeping the privacy of their users, including free users.

The Online Safety Act 2025, Kids Online Safety Act and Online Safety Amendment is all put in the place of protecting the younger audience, yet all of these have shown flaws and issues with the government - with the Kids Online Safety Act being heavily protested by the population, the aforementioned issues with the Online Safety Act, along with the failure of the Online Safety Amendment in Australia and the restriction of the younger population.

The writings of Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four are shining into light and we are only seeing the beginning of a dystopian future. It’s well perceived that in the future, the majority of countries will end up monitoring their population, censoring politics and information in exchange for propaganda alongside the heavy restrictions of the internet with little to no care for your privacy from governments or even data brokers.

Backlash against all these acts are ever-present yet the legislators show no remorse or care for the risks it entails and the lack of functionality that it brings for “protecting children" or “protecting the people" with legislators ignoring the genuine issues and instead claiming that those against it are against Child Safety.
We live in uncertain times and are at constant risk of more countries following this path and countries like the UK and Australia further enforcing the acts, with the UK having discussions on bans of VPNs.

Petitions and backlash is ignored by those we are meant to follow and our life is monitored and paved by the censorship of these acts.

Orwell’s writing is soon to become our present day life and action needs to happen soon.

Safe VPNs (please do your own research beforehand, this is based on my knowledge and things can change after the posting of this blog)
PIA: https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/
ProtonVPN: https://protonvpn.com/

We hope you have popcorn, enjoy the Remastered Nineteen Eighty-Four, on your internet near you!