The Onion follows where Paul Ford went back in 2002.
As a part of Purge’s first phase, executives will destroy all copyrighted materials that cannot be searched by Google.
This reminds me of a bit in Ian M. Banks’ Use of Weapons, where an invading power has been asked to spare a conquered world’s electronic archive. The invading general tells the librarians that he will not erase it, then orders his programmers to run an in-place sort of every character and pixel.
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