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Libraries Asked To Destroy Reports, Databases

Posted by timothy on from the we-never-said-that dept.

unix guy writes: "Our good friends and protectors in the U.S. Gov't have decided that what we used to know we can't know any longer. This LA Times story talks about libraries being ordered to destroy existing government reports and data sources in the name of homeland security." Is it really a fair trade to give up readily-available information about "airports, water treatment plants, nuclear reactors and more"?

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  1. Re:This is absurd. by Hobaird · · Score: 5, Funny

    We have always been at war with Afghanistan. We have always been allies with Russia.

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