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Orwellian Irony in the Extreme Double-Plus-Good Update: It's a fake!

Nick Gillespie | 2.7.2012 5:15 PM


Picture of the the day, courtesy the Twitter feeds of Libby Jacobson, Soren Dayton, and Radley Balko.

Update!: So it turns out the picture above is a photoshopped image. For a shot of the building's front, go here and here for an explanation.

And here's a 2007 story from the Daily Mail about the proliferation of closed-circuit TV cameras (CCTV) in Orwell's old neighborhood.

Nick Gillespie is an editor at large at Reason and host of The Reason Interview With Nick Gillespie.

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