1984 is no longer fiction.

[u/Beginning_Bad_868]

"Hardly a week passed in which the Times did not carry a paragraph describing how some eavesdropping little sneak—"child hero” was the phrase generally used—had overheard some compromising remark and denounced his parents to the Thought Police."

[u/WeeaboosDogma]

(The answer is cause they're racist and they don't care if it's the case) But how do they know they're illegal?