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Been wondering about this phenomenon for awhile. Spotify can delete music history. Youtube can delete video history. If it's on a streaming service it may as we
by thinkingkong 7y ago
Been wondering about this phenomenon for awhile. Spotify can delete music history. Youtube can delete video history. If it's on a streaming service it may as well not exist. We're at this strange point where convenience may as well be access, because the same service you used for discovery is the one for consumption. I don't know if this phenomenon has a name.
- nixpulvis 7y agoMy feelings exactly.
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- pixl97 7y agoYou better start unthinking before you're the one getting put down the memory hole.
- ddiq 7y agoLikewise Amazon removing books from its site is much more effective than any book burning.
- Fnoord 7y agoFahrenheit 451, good movie about that. I just found out Amazon owns Goodreads. They also own IMDB.
- ddiq 7y agoAn oft-overlooked aspect of Fahrenheit 451 is that it's everyday people that report others to the firemen in the book, very similar to how content is censored these days. Goodreads will list any book for the time being, even ones banned from Amazon. One example is The Culture of Critique - the link to Amazon goes to a broken page, but links to buy it from other vendors remain. Link to the book - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/182136.The_Culture_of_Critique https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/182136.The_Culture_of_Cr...
- vixen99 7y agoYou can buy them (or if curious, simply see which books have been banned) here http://www.unz.com/bookstore/ http://www.unz.com/bookstore/
- fierarul 7y agoLong ago only very rich people or clergymen owned books. They were read out loud to the illiterate at gatherings.