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DamianTV
11-13-2013, 05:21 PM
http://news.slashdot.org/story/13/11/13/1734213/britains-conservatives-scrub-speeches-from-the-internet


"The Conservative Party have attempted to delete all their speeches and press releases online from the past 10 years, including one in which David Cameron promises to use the Internet to make politicians 'more accountable'. The Tory party have deleted the backlog of speeches from the main website and the Internet Archive — which aims to make a permanent record of websites and their content — between 2000 and May 2010"

Controlling the access to information generated in the past is the key to controlling peoples perceptions in the future. What would happen if no living person ever knew that the USA or Constitution ever existed?