The Great Erasure Examines Vanishing Digital Records And Cultural Amnesia
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THE GREAT ERASURE Chasing the Vanishing Digital Record and the Cost of the Amnesia Generation. You won’t believe what we already forgot. Out soon at http://ReadMultiplex.com
Predatory human data erasure by corporations: “I left YouTube for a while in 2022, when Scholastic, one of the largest children’s book publishers on earth, tried to get my channel deleted. Turns out they bought the assets of a defunct filmstrip publisher whose work I was trying to save. So not only had no one preserved these things, but a corporation hoarding bankruptcy assets now threatened the very point of preservation in the first place: making history available for viewing.” - Mark O'Brien, "On Filmstrips”
THE GREAT ERASURE Chasing the Vanishing Digital Record and the Cost of the Amnesia Generation. You won’t believe what we already forgot. Out soon at http://ReadMultiplex.com