What is written in black and white, recorded on a page, is forever able to be presented as evidence that (at the time of printing at least) something was in fact as written.
The "as it is written" in the ether of electronic storage is considerably more plastic (or fungible) and ephemeral. What you now see written on the monitor or screen (and assume is accessible in the same form should you come back to it later) can in fact be altered or vanish before you return to it again.
Authors who wrote in heartfelt inspiration can later change that momentous passion to anything they want to say instead afterward to mollify whatever audience they need to appease or pander to; seeking in fear to escape coercive actions by offended powers.
Dangerous books can be burned, of course, to make them go away in a hurry. But they (or any “scripture”) conserve and preserve as long as they exist the ability to disseminate the thought bound up in them.
Culture standing upon a cut-and-paste edit-at-will instantaneousness; and defenseless against application of a "select all / delete" algorithm is precariously poised for collapse.
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