"The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.”

The censorship of the tech thought police is a huge problem: 

…All tyrants have known that to control the masses and keep them in submission, you need to take away their history. If you can get the people to be ignorant about their own past, their future can be so very easily molded and directed. Three quotes from Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four nicely make this point:

“The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.”

“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And that process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except the endless present in which the party is always right.”

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”

In the past the Big Brother statists did all they could to control history, to rewrite history, and to deny people their own history. Today many of the tech giants are doing exactly the same. Whether it is Twitter or Google or Facebook, the amount of censorship and heavy-handed manipulation of information is staggering to behold…

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