How the State Deletes Outlier Voices

Examining the interactive Interface between the technological, psychological and manifest reality. Which is more automated?

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Note: This post is longer than fits in an email. As I was writing events were happening that changed the post, making it longer. I decided to let the post be as long as it needs to be and continue online.

Event #1 Hidden Manipulation

In my recent post, I wrote that “ a bill search and a statute search for Dirigo Business Incentive Program, and also An Act to Modernize Maine's Business Incentive Programs, came up empty. ”

Later I discovered that when I copied and pasted the name of the act from the linked article on the maine.gov website, extra code was inserted like so: “An Act to Modernize Maine’s Business Incentive Programs:

I deleted the extra code from the title field and then I was able to bring up the bill HERE

However, the following day I tried inputting the name again by copying and pasting it from this article published by The Office Of The Governor into the title field in the advanced search screen on Maine Bill Search. The title appeared exactly as it…