it has been done for a long time.
it has been done everywhere.
it has been done in different circumstances.
book burning.
but it’s almost always done for the same reason:
stoping information from spreading around.
in other words: controlling it.
controlling the information, controlling the population.

In the aftermath of the coup, soldiers carry away allegedly subversive books,
which will be burned. Santiago, Chile, September 1973.
© David Burnett – more pictures of this serie on Contact Press Images
while reading (and watching) pictures from the 2010 december’s edition of “Reporter Sans Frontières”s album, dedicated to David Burnett’s work, I came around this picture. it’s not my favorite of his work, but it made me think about the internet restrictions we’re now seeing in the Middle-East.
because Facebook is able to easily rally people.
because Twitter is able to quickly get messages around.
so is “internet blocking” the new “book burning”?

