By James Passin
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Some years back, Amazon deleted George Orwell’s legendary dystopian novel, 1984, from Kindle devices – an ironic action that revealed the unfettered raw power of the technology giants such as Amazon to censor and even delete our own literary history at will. I remember this well because I have a degree in philosophy, and 1984 was one of my favorite books to read and reread on Kindle. A literary work that I felt was permanent and mine to peruse at any moment simply vanished.