Hacker News Reader

> a system where consumers have access to all revisions of a book

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.

View on HN

Well they're doing a bad job at that then, since everyone knows that this is happening.

This is nothing. In a few years kids and their parents won't even think to ask if their book is legit, let alone know that it isn't. Most people don't even know it right now. By the numbers, essentially no one even knows this just happend. Go ask the next 100 people you see.

Yep. How many people read patch notes?

Now, yes, but if some other tech giant like Google decides to remove all mentions of the incident from their search engine, most people in 2040 will no longer know that something like that happened.

Look no further than China and their systematic scrubbing of the Tien-an-men massacre from history.

No need for hypotheticals. Google heavily edits searches for ideological reasons already and most people have no idea it's happening.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com