In his 2010 speech at the Oslo Freedom Forum, Julian Assange touched on something that feels even more relevant today than it did at the time. Speaking about archives, memory, and historical preservation, he referenced Orwell’s famous line:
“Who controls the past controls the future.”
Julian’s point was not nostalgic. He was not speaking about archives as static museums of history, but as something profoundly alive and political. What he was describing was the struggle over reality itself — over what survives, what disappears, and who ultimately gets to define historical truth.