As I speak to you today, government censors somewhere are working furiously to erase my words from the records of history. But history itself has already condemned these tactics.
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We are set to make very bad history.
In the Iraq war, for instance, so much of the information is digitized and can easily be wiped out. That will make it very hard to write accurate histories. Also, there's a much greater opportunity for suppression of information before it can even be archived.
And why do we, who say we oppose tyranny and demand freedom of speech, allow people to go to prison and be vilified, and magazines to be closed down on the spot, for suggesting another version of history.
There are people in every time and every land who want to stop history in its tracks. They fear the future, mistrust the present, and invoke the security of a comfortable past which, in fact, never existed.
Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.
If we don't record our own history on the Net, it will disappear.
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
History is only written from what remains.
History is history. What is done is done.
For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.
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