Students for an Orwellian Society (SOS) is an organization dedicated to documenting the US (and to some extent the UK) government’s attempts to bring society in-line with Orwell’s principles of IngSoc.
Some of my favourite examples of DoubleSpeak from the site:
The truly Orwellian and praiseworthy Transportation Safety Administration gets our thanks for spotting anti-Americanism in passengers’ baggage. Flying while wearing certain buttons may not be permitted. It is, apparently, okay to wear a button saying, “Hooray for Tony Blair,†though. Similarly, carrying a note stating that you do not have a bomb in your bag is equivalent to saying that you do have a bomb. It’s not easy to capture someone killed the year before—until you harness the power of Ingsoc. When you’ve got Ingsoc on your side, though, it’s so easy that the US did it again.
It’s all DoublePlusGood!
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