What is Big Brother? What do they do?
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Big Brother is a popular reality television format, where, over 15 weeks or so, a number of contestants (typically 12) try to avoid periodic publicly-voted evictions from a communal house and hence win a cash prize. The show, a kind of 'real life soap', was invented by John de Mol of the Netherlands and developed by his production company, Endemol. It has been a prime-time hit in almost 70 different countries, earning Endemol large sums. The show's name comes from George Orwell's 1949 novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, a dystopia in which Big Brother is the all-seeing leader.
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http://hosted.bbbsa.org/big/index.asp\nHere's the Big Brother Website.\n\nI can't tell you what other programs are in your area, but ask your son's school counselor.
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well we both know since 911 a lot of changes have been made since big brother has no constitutinal obligations toward the spying on its own citizens. i suggest you do the right thing and tell the world what you know. remember, a man that stands for nothing will will fall for anything.the greatest thing a person can have is self sacrifice
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No one likes "big brother" after them.  I found best way (without any cost) is to contact your state's Attorney General's office and file a complaint.  Keep all your records,make copies for complaint.  Always save your original copies.
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I love that show and have been anxiously awaiting it myself...check out the link below...           \n\n\nIt's a few days later now and...YES...I've just finished reading  about the new season...it will be an all-stars season...not sure when it starts...but the viewers will get to vote on who... gets to be in the house...a first for Big Brother...now I REALLY can't wait...
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Pat RobERTson, Rush, and Sean Hannity along with G. Gordon Liddy and others are an essential part of America's National Security.  They have alerted millions to the dangers and schemes of liberals and liberalism in America.  It doesn't matter that they don't work for the government.  Big Brother gubmint doesn't do very much very well anyway.
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it came from Eric Arthur Blair  much better known by the pen name George Orwell, was a British author and journalist. Noted as a political and cultural commentator, as well as an accomplished novelist, Orwell is among the most widely admired English-language essayists of the 20th century. He is best known for two novels written towards the end of his short life: Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four.\n\nNineteen Eighty-Four has given the English language the phrase 'Big Brother', or 'Big Brother is watching you'. This is used to refer to any oppressive regime, but particularly in the context of invasion of privacy. The TV series 'Big Brother' is named after this phrase.
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It's like the film "Bug's Life", you never know what you can do until you do it as a group. There are many folks out there that feel the same way you do, seek them out and start a grass roots movement. But be careful as soon as you do big brother will be watching. With,the new Home Land Security thing they will be watching bigger than ever before. Be careful, be safe, and don't do anything insane.\nWe moved a mountain in the sixties and seventies but nothing worth doing comes easily. \nThis forum is mostly kids looking for answers not leadership.
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Yes indeed, there are books that are monitored. Books that pertain to guerrilla warfare, explosives, improvised munitions, and a few others are watched by Big Brother. Just be cool,and nothing will happen. Some of those books are quite informative reads, as I have read a great many.....for entertainment purposes of course!
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The allusion to "Big Brother" is based on the novel "1984" by George Orwell. "Big Brother" knows what is best for everyone and is always monitoring you.\n\nThis statement no doubt refers to  the movement to eliminate fat foods from school cafeterias. In other words, "You can't eat that - Big Brother is watching you." \n\nOrwell was predicting dictatorship by 1984.
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I did this program many years ago when it first began. Now my son (grown) is mad at me. Just like people are mad at wiretapping, my son feels like the government knows all about him. He said the idea was great to save kids, but when grown it"s big brother. He wonders if that's the real reason they started it. Good way to catch those kids though that grow up to be criminals.
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Yes, if you take charge of your own, but they are audited by Big Brother more and more every day.
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Usually, they site that information according to a large group of people under observation. They take the number of their 'watched' households viewing certain shows and calculate the general numbers according to the percentage of their test families.\nOr, at least, that's what I've heard.
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unfortunately theres laws rules and regulations and big brother is watching!
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Everything and anything that's to do with gossip and the big brother house.
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What do you mean by this?  What are they positioning themselves to do?
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