Diana West:
‘Wikipedia, the widely read, online, multi-authored encyclopedia, features an entry on the term “memory hole,” which originated with the prescient if not also clairvoyant George Orwell.
The Wikipedia definition begins: “A memory hole is any mechanism for the alteration or disappearance of inconvenient or embarrassing documents, photographs, transcripts, or other records … particularly as part of an attempt to give the impression that something never happened.”
Wikipedia itself may have just offered a good example of how the mechanism works when unknown, unknowable site authorities “took down” a new entry on Lt. Col. Terrence Lakin’s challenge to President Obama’s eligibility to hold office almost as soon it went up….’