Erasing Data From the Internet
If You Do This, Will It Make a Person Disappear (from the universe)? There are people who believe this.
So, if I wish to delete a person who played a significant role in our society, I will simply find the pages that describe this person on the Internet and delete them. Once deleted, that person, as we all know, will cease to exist.
Apparently, some people believe that when Internet web pages are removed, those things that are described on those pages will cease to exist. The Internet is actually a godlike power in its ability to control reality.
Of course, the individuals promoting this activity don’t read anything; therefore, the pages on the Internet are worthless to them.
Imagine this.
One day, I am walking in Washington, DC, and I encounter a person who looks, sounds, and acts like Colin Powell. Knowing that he had been deleted from the Internet, I went up to him and asked, “Weren’t you deleted from the Internet?”
Because Colin Powell is extremely honest and forthright, he responds, “Yes, I am Colin Powell, and I was deleted from the Internet.”
So, I then asked him, “How is it that I recognize you and also know about you and what you have accomplished in your life?”
I go on and say, “How is it that I still admire you and consider you a person that I would choose as a role model?” “How can I do this if you no longer have an Internet presence?” “Don’t you cease to exist?”
Colin Powell chuckles, and from his picket, he gives me a list of several hundred sources where I can learn about him and his history. I am astounded, and also thankful, that he has not been wiped from existence by deleting a few Internet pages.
Colin Powell also shared with me that all pages everywhere on the Internet are “backed up.” For anyone who doesn’t know, a backup is a COPY of a web page, a website, and basically all websites on the Internet. A long time ago, some independent folk decided having a backup of the Internet might be a great idea, especially if there are people who believe that erasing Internet pages actually causes erasure of any people whose pages are erased.
In addition to Colin Powell’s list of Internet sources that tell his story other than the Military sites that were deleted, Mr. Powell also mentioned that there were these things called “books” made from paper and ink that also contained the stories of such people as Colin Powell.
Being the naive person that I am and also “unwoke” because I wouldn’t dare to be woken now, I asked Colin Powell, “Do the Tuskegee Airmen also continue to exist in places on and off the Internet?” and he says, “Of course.”
I am happy that this is the case because Colin Powell and the Tuskegee Airmen deserve for their stories to remain in the history books, as do many other historically important people.
When I first read that someone was deleting pages and websites on the Internet, I was very concerned because of the implications of what they were trying to do. This activity on the Internet is reminiscent of the book burnings that took place in the 1930s, when the Nazi regime was trying to erase all instances of subversion to Nazi principles.
Back in the 1930s, book burning may have resulted in the elimination of those documents that did not support the principles of Nazism. Today, such activities would only eliminate a small part of “written” history. Someone said that Mr. Powell was expunged from the Internet. Nope, he’s still there.
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