"Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls 

the past.... The mutability of the past is the central tenet of Ingsoc."

                                                                —George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four

From Tessa Leena:

My dissident librarian friend was talking about this for years, how libraries were 

intentionally messing up—removing, throwing away, and hiding offsite—physical 

books, under pressure from tech companies, to the point of being complicit in 

eliminating books. She says that it is all on purpose, so that people have no other 

place to go to but online, and online information can be “updated” or removed 

at will. I thought it was possibly less than a coordinated effort (or at least in part 

incompetence), but wow.