If you’re on social media, chances are good you’re being watched by “Big Brother,” or what we now call AI. And you may find yourself blocked, shadow-banned, or even suspended. But that’s not the worst part about it. Censorship means it’s likely you’re being deprived of the information you need to make vital decisions that will affect your fate and the future of your family—information about choosing a president, or protecting yourself from a pandemic, or warning you of a military conflict that seems far away, until it’s not.

In this forward-looking episode of Over the Target, Brendon Fallon and Lee Smith explain how censorship in 2023 leads to “1984.”