Mason Greenwood released on bail

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If the audio is genuine then Greenwood's career is over, at least at the highest level. It is a shocking listen. To be fair to the media they have to be very careful. It is a legal minefield. It is not clear who made the recording or released it or if the girl has legally given her consent. It is as serious as it gets for the media to identify a victim of a sex crime unless they have waived their anonymity. She is a vulnerable young girl and, even though the picture and tape have been broadcast, she still needs to be protected.
Unfortunately this is football, so it's never over (unless he gets put away) while there are teams who think he's better than what they have currently.
 
Saying you think he understood something without any evidence to support your contention is mere speculation. There is simply nothing in 1984, or any other of his works afaik, to suggest he anticipated the means to record and disseminate the actions of individuals (and/or the state) would lie in the hands of private citizens.

Saying that he ‘understood that even if citizens had the technology to film coercive and oppressive practices by the state’ is worthless without any evidence that he conceived of such a notion in the first place.

It’s not a criticism btw. Who could possibly have imagined the road that exponential advances in technology, conflated with rampant capitalism would have taken us down, but to suggest Orwell did is plainly wrong.
So why use Orwell as an example of an author who 'failed to anticipate' the future 'exponential advances in technology' when you have just asked 'Who could possibly have imagined' such an advancement, suggesting that nobody could have?
 
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