The digital era is not kind to preserving history.
Kinder than it's ever been (at least for the short term)!
We can (and do) archive this stuff in a way that doesn't go up in smoke from a single library fire. It's searchable too.
Facebook takes down accounts and pages of Roger Stone
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#12I enjoyed an interview with one of two filmmakers about a documentary they made on Roger Stone. Politics aside, he's an interesting character.
https://www.npr.org/2017/07/13/537023277/documentary-reveals...
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#13The future is decentralized, techs and hackers will leave and regular joes will follow later.
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#15> "that included a Nazi symbol"
I believe it was an upside down triangle... That's a common symbol and just happened to match an obscure Nazi symbol I think very few people alive today have ever seen before.
Just more propaganda repeated over and over. "Nope, it wasn't an upside down triangle, it was a Nazi symbol. Everyone using upside down triangles is hereafter deemed to be making Nazi dogwhistles!"
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#16The digital era is not kind to preserving history.
Not just in terms of data preservation, but also in the amounts and the ever-quicker shifts of context. I can barely understand the controversy of the day on Twitter as it is, and I'm living through it. I don't know how future historians will make any sense of the data we do leave behind.
But wasn't the alternative in the past just less data and fewer people with power to create preserved data?
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You are not wrong in your assessment. It is clearly bias at play. This will change the social media landscape where you will have platforms delineated by political ideologies. It is sad that it is happening but it is true that voices are being suppressed. Suppression/Censorship of speech has never lead to a free society. The opposite in fact!
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#18The future is decentralized, techs and hackers will leave and regular joes will follow later.
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#19The digital era is not kind to preserving history.
Not just in terms of data preservation, but also in the amounts and the ever-quicker shifts of context. I can barely understand the controversy of the day on Twitter as it is, and I'm living through it. I don't know how future historians will make any sense of the data we do leave behind.
Future historians are going to be glad the data exists. You know how many things in history we base off of some very questionable data?
We barely know about the Persian empire for example. It's mostly been preserved by plays written by a greek dude.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not just in terms of data preservation, but also in the amounts and the ever-quicker shifts of context. I can barely understand the controversy of the day on Twitter as it is, and I'm living through it. I don't know how future historians will make any sense of the data we do leave behind.
But wasn't the alternative in the past just less data and fewer people with power to create preserved data?
No, you had letters and other primary source material.
The garbage on Twitter is literally garbage and propaganda. The bleating of various mouthpieces are only useful in coordination with events and real documents.