We've all forgotten Stalin

http://mistful.livejournal.com/110810.html ; is something we all need to think about. In an era of digital information, where something that's been 'known' for years can be rewritten instantly and our only protection is spreading data, this is something we need to fear.

Because it happens. Check out  http://wikiscanner.virgil.gr/ ; and the scandal it started, that got hushed up by corporations. Who edits a corporation's wikipedia page most often? It's PR employees, as it turns out.  Thought wikipedia was a reliable source?  Think again...but it's the source most school kids turn to when they want to find out about something. What are we teaching to our kids?  And is it the same thing we taught them yesterday?

Or are we turning into the Soviet Union?  Because trust me - it can be done.  Speaking as a technology specialist, it is easy to erase something from the Net. It is easy to delete records and remove files and change your vote.  Teens do it for kicks. The government does it for power. We need to stop anyone from doing it. For sanity. 

You're probably going to think I'm crazy. I'm telling you, it happens. This is not a Illuminati warning.  Photo manipulation, rewriting history textbooks - the Nazis did this. Likewise, Communists in Russia and China, the fascists in Spain, Julius Caesar and his contemporaries, etc. The list is endless. And we're just fooling ourselves if we think modern society is immune.

Watch it,
Featherwizard