On 03/10/2014 11:30, Seb35 wrote:
Another point of view is that the knowledge doesn’t (shouldn’t) depend
in any way of the local government -- possibly it can be viewed
differently from a culture to another but that’s a cultural question
not related to censorship.
Moreover it would be a censorship practice close to the Ministry of
Truth in 1984 where the newspapers are re-printed afterwards to modify
the past History.
This is exactly the point: when local governments attempt to twist the
truth, they are currently able to do this for all readers, regardless of
the location. This feature would allow to explicitly twist the truth in
specific areas where this twisting is legally required, while preserving
the real version for everyone else. In a way, it will also keep the
registry of altered information, while now there is no such way and
alterations are just swallowed.
Yuri
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