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I've known people working on archiving at big old media organizations, and one thing that is underestimated is the extent to which now inconvenient things are p

I've known people working on archiving at big old media organizations, and one thing that is underestimated is the extent to which now inconvenient things are painted out of the archives. For example, there was a large classic cartoon archive which had a whole team of retouchers painting out all the smoking.

toyg 2y ago
Stalin's administration would be so proud!
EricE 2y ago
The Internet Archive isn't immune to that either, unfortunately. Taylor Lorenz has leveraged her uncle to delete unfavorable stuff about her out of the Internet Archive :/