{"id":112876,"date":"2015-03-23T16:00:57","date_gmt":"2015-03-23T16:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=112876"},"modified":"2015-03-26T08:18:09","modified_gmt":"2015-03-26T08:18:09","slug":"jibo-the-family-robot-or-how-to-sell-big-brother-over-sentimental-music-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=112876","title":{"rendered":"\u201cJibo the Family Robot\u201d or How to Sell Big Brother Over Sentimental Music (video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Vigilant Citizen &#8212; vigilantcitizen.com March 23, 2015<\/h1>\n<h5>Praised by CNN and the Wallstreet Journal, Jibo is the world\u2019s first \u201cfamily robot\u201d. A cheesy, overly sentimental video selling this machine explains exactly how it will spy on your entire family \u2026 And it is extremely creepy.<\/h5>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Jibo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-112877\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Jibo.jpg\" alt=\"Jibo\" width=\"500\" height=\"279\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Jibo.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Jibo-300x167.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h5>In the cautionary tale that was <em>1984<\/em>, telescreens were used by the ruling Party to keep its subjects under constant surveillance, thus eliminating the chance of secret conspiracies against it. Almost 70 years after the release of the novel, telescreens are a reality \u2026 and they are going much further than Orwell\u2019s telescreens.<\/h5>\n<h5>Enter Jibo. Before I go further, I will let you witness its mindbogglingly absurd video selling this product. The first time I watched it, I actually asked myself if it was some kind of spoof or parody. But no. I got confirmation that it was 100% real and that the product is about to ship worldwide. Then a dark, creeping feeling overwhelmed me as I realized the immense potential of this machine. Here\u2019s the ad.<\/h5>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vigilantcitizen.com\/latestnews\/jibo-the-family-robot-or-how-to-sell-big-brother-over-sentimental-music-video\/\">Continues &#8230; <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They want you to have an All-Seeing Eye in your home \u2026 and they want you to pay money for it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":127,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Commentary","category-Surveillance"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/127"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=112876"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112879,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112876\/revisions\/112879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=112876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=112876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=112876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}