QotD: Orwellian April

Finally, in a story so bewildering it may retire the entire concept of "Orwellian" once and for all, the company that owns the copyright to Orwell's 1984 recently sent a chill letter to YouTube over the now-famous anti-Hillary "Vote Different" video because, at the end, it makes a reference to the Orwell's novel, the implication being that copyright law prevents anyone from citing 1984 in a work attempting to warn us that the state is ascending to 1984-like proportions. Which probably means this entire post is illegal, too.

Unfortunately, there isn't an April Fool's joke anywhere in this post.

Radley Balko, "Reality Nudges Ahead of Dystopia", Hit and Run, 2007-04-01