Big Brotherism

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Recent Examples of Big Brotherism Weaponizing social media and other U.S. businesses to do what the Constitution would not allow government to do is Big Brotherism. WSJ, 31 Mar. 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for Big Brotherism
Noun
  • Entertainment Weekly can exclusively report that the former Big Brother winner, who came back to compete this summer on season 27 of the competition franchise, will also be making a triumphant return to her other TV home away from home!
    Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Who won part 3 of the final Head of Household competition on 'Big Brother'?
    David Wysong, Cincinnati Enquirer, 29 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • No more communism, or fascism; no more theocracy, or monarchies.
    Richard Stengel, Time, 1 Oct. 2025
  • This is the thing about fascism, right?
    Helen Molesworth, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Still, some historians object to reincarnating a place so central to Nazism as a cultural venue for pleasure.
    Shira Li Bartov, Sun Sentinel, 5 Aug. 2025
  • Threat of communism, along with awful economic misery, spawned fascism and Nazism, and World War II.
    Arthur I. Cyr, Chicago Tribune, 22 July 2025
Noun
  • The new Constitution’s supporters, known as Federalists, faced fierce opposition from Anti-Federalists who charged that a powerful national government, unrestrained by a bill of rights, would inevitably lead to tyranny.
    Donald Nieman, The Conversation, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Males that tried to rule by asserting their dominance through violence, tyranny and threat did not last.
    Preston Fore, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • If the Supreme Court officially makes the chief executive a unitary executive, the advancement of the public good may depend on little more than the whims of the president, a state of affairs normally more characteristic of dictatorship than democracy.
    Graham G. Dodds, The Conversation, 7 Oct. 2025
  • The exec emphasized his excitement about being in the country a few months after Salles’ history-making drama about Brazil’s military dictatorship, a film that also scored nominations for best picture and actress for Fernanda Torres.
    Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 4 Oct. 2025

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