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E-PrinceGeorge Orwell delivered the final manuscript of "Nineteen Eighty-Four. A novel" almost exactly 60 years ago. The book has had a strong influence on language through words like newspeak, doublethink, Big Brother and of course the adjective "Orwellian," but fortunately ...(back to the article)
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Over the pond one could not experience the orwellian world in 1984 but in Eastern Europe it was close to reality. History was overwritten and controlled by the Communist Party (which has re-branded himself as Socialist Worker's Party in Hungary after 1956). There was no freedom of speech. Religious freedom was constrained to churches. The TV of Orwell's novel did not work as today's internet-enabled computer but another way: what you have heard on TV you knew that you should think the same, otherwise you might have faced the question: "you do not like the System?".
Posting comments on the internet makes you trackable, of course, but it is not true that you do not gain anything: you get freedom of speech. Yes, that does have a price. You cannot speak freely and be anonymous at the same time. Only in a dictatorship you want to be anonymous.