Except not really - the thought police is a real thing. While not literally thought police, and not as wide reaching, as sometimes people make it out to Bez it still was a terrifying and oppressive thing. There were plenty of informants and your neighbors would snitch on you too should they suspect you're doing something like thinking bad things about the gensec, or listening to western propaganda on the radio. And this thing about the privacy of your home means that you can't talk about it with your guests even. Hell, at some points of time and places watching western movies could get you a visit from the cops.