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UK plan to digitise wills and destroy paper originals "insane" say experts (www.theguardian.com)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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UK plan to digitise wills and destroy paper originals "insane" say experts::Department hopes to save £4.5m a year by digitising – then binning – about 100m wills that date back 150 years

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's not insane, it's malicious. Done with ill intent. How many times do we have to see shit like this before we stop giving obvious evil the benefit of the doubt?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

Saving money for the tax payer by doing things a better way is evil?