EPISODE · May 21, 2019 · 5 MIN
We Are Tenants on Our Own Devices
from Security, Spoken · host WIRED
A decade ago, Amazon abruptly deleted copies of George Orwell's 1984 from the Kindles of its American customers. The move instantly evoked the “memory holes” in the novel's totalitarian dystopia, and it inspired about equal measures of shock, outrage, and jokes. (If a fictional Amazon in a dystopian novel had performed the same mass deletion, critics would have said it was too on the nose. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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We Are Tenants on Our Own Devices
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