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I mean, I'm sure there are many things about Austrian politics which are less than ideal, but I'm not convinced a lawsuit and series of appeals taking three years to decide that a claim that a Green Party member was a fascist and a traitor was defamatory was quite the dystopia Orwell had in mind. (And Orwell lived in a country with strong libel laws, which his publisher was constantly worried about his own writings falling foul of and he was very happy to encourage his publisher to worry about more when the libellous comments were made abut him)


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