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Comment by thinkingkong | Hacker News Reader

Been wondering about this phenomenon for awhile. Spotify can delete music history. Youtube can delete video history. If it's on a streaming service it may as well not exist. We're at this strange point where convenience may as well be access, because the same service you used for discovery is the one for consumption. I don't know if this phenomenon has a name.

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You better start unthinking before you're the one getting put down the memory hole.

Long ago only very rich people or clergymen owned books. They were read out loud to the illiterate at gatherings.

Likewise Amazon removing books from its site is much more effective than any book burning.

You can buy them (or if curious, simply see which books have been banned) here http://www.unz.com/bookstore/

Fahrenheit 451, good movie about that. I just found out Amazon owns Goodreads. They also own IMDB.

An oft-overlooked aspect of Fahrenheit 451 is that it's everyday people that report others to the firemen in the book, very similar to how content is censored these days.

Goodreads will list any book for the time being, even ones banned from Amazon. One example is The Culture of Critique - the link to Amazon goes to a broken page, but links to buy it from other vendors remain.

Link to the book - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/182136.The_Culture_of_Cr...

My feelings exactly.

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