2. Better yet, shouldn’t we just have a system where consumers have access to all revisions of a book? We’re talking about digital records, not physical books that need to be printed and shipped, after all.
Except they didn't. They licensed a copy of the book, and that license was revocable or changeable at any time. It's all there in the 175 page agreement they were forced to sign before the purchase went through.
Consumers lost the digital ownership battle a long time ago.
I can slightly sympathize that digital media may have different rules than physical, but some are just misleading.
Oh yes, and if I'm ok with a used copy, it's $2.15. Would I shame anyone (including myself) if somehow, by an unexplained miracle of nature, it happens that a DRM-less digital copy of the same book appears on their hard drive? No, I won't.
A key component of censorship or falsification is hiding the fact that it even takes place. They are tools of deception, and if you tell people exactly how you are deceiving them, it is no longer effective.
Look no further than China and their systematic scrubbing of the Tien-an-men massacre from history.