Orwell lives in London. (Insider Report).In early November, London residents who use the city's mass-transit system were greeted with posters depicting a double-decker bus A double-decker bus is a bus that has two levels. While double-decker long-distance coaches are in widespread use around the world, double-decker city buses are less common. beneath four floating eyes. "Secure beneath the watchful eyes," read the poster's caption. "CCTV CCTV abbr. closed-circuit television CCTV closed-circuit television and Metropolitan Police on buses are just two of the ways we're making your journey more secure." CCTV is a system of 1.5 million police cameras deployed in London's streets, buildings, and mass transit mass transit, public transportation systems designed to move large numbers of passengers. Types and Advantages Mass transit refers to municipal or regional public shared transportation, such as buses, streetcars, and ferries, open to all on a systems. Images from the cameras are fed into a central processing center and used to identify criminals, protesters, and "hooligans." The system's Orwellian overtones prompted critical comment from London residents, and some privacy advocates initially thought that the official posters were a cunning protest staged by its critics. "I thought it was a powerful piece of political satire Political satire is a subgenre of general satire that specializes in gaining entertainment from politics, politicians, and public affairs. It has also been used with subversive intent where political speech and dissent are forbidden by a regime, as a method of advancing political from a disruptive citizens' group, but then it dawned on me that they were real," commented Simon Davies Simon Davies may refer to:
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