Thursday, July 18, 2013

Secret deletings

American Digest links to an amazing story linked to by the blog small dead animals.

Thousands of people last week discovered that Amazon had quietly removed electronic copies of George Orwell's 1984 from their Kindle e-book readers.

An uproar followed, with outraged customers pointing out the irony that Amazon was deleting copies of a novel about a fascist media state that constantly alters history by changing digital records of what has happened.

Read the whole story here.

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