In 1984

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as well as legal for the watcher. In order to change the future and the present you do not need to own a time machine. You simply have to control the past. the government, or "The Party," controlled the past. They were able to destroy all proof that something did or did not happen. "The Party" was able to destroy all of the references that something, even a person, ever existed. Although one may remember that person, they could never find proof that it was true. The most alarming part about this is that it is much easier to do it in the world today. Since most information is now kept on disk, and backed up onto even more magnetic media, one could simply destroy all areas where the data said that someone had existed. Talk about a missing person.
Our government is taking steps towards this type of Orwellian society all the time. It is hard to believe, but just look at recent legislation. It first started with the advent of the Social Security System. We now are required to receive ...

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