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Deleting History: Why Governments Demand Google Censor the Truth

Lauren Weinstein Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility, Network Neutrality Squad, Global Coalition for Transparent Internet Performance, ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy, Privacy Forum. The best ameliorant for such situations is not less information, but *more* information. Not censorship, but annotation. A “right to forget” is a terrible concept.

Deleting History: Why Governments Demand Google Censor the Truth
http://lauren.vortex.com/archive/000826.html
“Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up
to date.  In this way every prediction made by the Party could
be shown by documentary evidence to have been correct, nor was
any item of news, or any expression of opinion, which conflicted
with the needs of the moment, ever allowed to remain on record.
All history was a palimpsest, scraped clean and reinscribed
exactly as often as was necessary.” — “1984” — George Orwell
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