The Impact of Digital Archive Control

So when something disappears

from the archives, the electronic archives for the West to

which all

information is moving into, it is gone forever.

It has not only ceased to have existed,

it has ceased to have ever have existed.

And when you go to those web pages that have been removed from Western

papers,

you won't see the tail lines. You will just see page not found.

You won't see anything in the index at all.

We are now approaching the state of Orwell's

dictum,

perfect dictum, that he who controls the present

controls the past.

He who controls internet servers controls the intellectual

record of mankind, and by controlling that, controls our

perceptions of who we are, and by controlling that,

controls what laws and regulations we make in

society.