🚨Historians, journalists, civics nerds: Let us take a moment to consider how many archives we are building to record our lives, histories, journalism & cultures in privately owned digital domains. Oligarchs could trash years of y/our records, work, articles, lives. 🚨
The civility crowd laughed when this crisis most obviously came into focus, when Hulk Hogan & Peter Thiel wanted to destroy & bury Gawker because it published stories about them they didn’t like. Thiel is also a MAJOR Silicon Valley mogul....
...and when a handful of dude bros control the publishing, the platforms and the archives, we don’t only lose the ability to dissent in the moment.
We lose the ability to dissent across time.
We lose the ability to dissent across time.
WE LOSE THE ABILITY TO DISSENT ACROSS TIME.
Digital purges of opinions which owners of the means of (media) production don’t like is akin to book burning, except it’s easier.
Digital purges of opinions which owners of the means of (media) production don’t like is akin to book burning, except it’s easier.
Another time they tittered about how silly it was to worry about archives disappearing: when Tumblr banned porn theatlantic.com/technology/arc…
