Article content “If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” When George Orwell wrote those words in the original preface to Animal Farm in the 1940s, the internet did not yet exist. It still didn’t years later when Orwell introduced us to the Thought Police and warned of Big Brother watching in 1984. But his powerful messages continue to resonate decades later because corrupt and authoritarian regimes have proven his writing was sadly never dystopian fantasy. And in the internet age, there are even more opportunities for regimes to monitor and control information, and quiet the voices of the people.