*"Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present * *controls * *the past.... The mutability of the past is the central tenet of Ingsoc."* * —George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four*
*From Tessa Leena:* *My dissident librarian friend was talking about this for years, how libraries were * *intentionally messing up—removing, throwing away, and hiding offsite—physical * *books, under pressure from tech companies, to the point of being complicit in * *eliminating books. She says that it is all on purpose, so that people have no other * *place to go to but online, and online information can be “updated” or removed * *at will. I thought it was possibly less than a coordinated effort (or at least in part * *incompetence), but wow.* --- Support News from Underground: https://bit.ly/NFUSupport Visit News from Underground: https://markcrispinmiller.com You received this email because you are subscribed to News from Underground. To unsubscribe from this email list, please go to: http://www.simplelists.com/confirm.php?u=pIdjNUgiG2h8yxbhC54SSy4SEskAoEMs For archives, please go to: https://archives.simplelists.com/nfu
