Brooke Binkowski: This is so fucked up. Do people realize this is an attack on all of us yet?

2002: "Careful, kids, the Internet is forever!" 2024: "Oh, hey, all the work you did for a decade of your life was just deleted from the Internet for Business Reasons." latenighter.com/news/paramou...

Paramount Axes Comedy Central Site, 25+ Years of Daily Show Clips Gonelatenighter.com One of the richest repositories of late-night videos—including 25 years of clips from 'The Daily Show' and the entire run of 'The Colbert Report'—is no longer.

This is so fucked up. Do people realize this is an attack on all of us yet?

they're going to paywall the whole world if they can

and then delete the parts of the world which don't pay

Or outlets that don't fall into line and agree with whatever fucked up version of the actual history corporations and bootlickers are trying to assemble

I shoulda been a data hoarder (no, for real, I'm kicking myself, would have been good at it)

I WAS INFORMED WE'D HAVE DATA HAVENS

Lol turned out it was all bullshit

there's still time! i mean, not for this. but for other things!

oh for sure, I'm doing the things I want to, but art-wise that wound up being: do the opposite of being a librarian

Even more late stage capitalism. They are killing things that people would pay for because they can make more money as a write-off.

i <3 digital enclosure !

people saw the MTV news story and all the comments were 'who cares about Road Rules Hawaii lmao' and so yeah no they are absolutely not paying attention

Christ

A lot of people aren't paying attention to anything

They need those resources for AI.

Do you remember the "cultural destabilization plot" around Russell Crowe back in 2001? Where the FBI followed him around for reasons that seemed really wild: Crowe being kidnapped (by Al Queda, allegedly) to upset Americans. This seems like a more refined version of that plot.

I have zero memory of this lol. But cultural destabilization is a great phrase for what we're all living through at the moment

www.latimes.com/archives/la-... Funny thing was, it was the FBI that dropped the story in 2001, not Crowe. They made such a thing of shadowing him in public. It was such theater.

Crowe says that Al Qaeda plotted to kidnap himwww.latimes.com The Al Qaeda terrorist network wanted to kidnap Russell Crowe as part of a "cultural destabilization plot," the Oscar-winning actor reports.

I couldn’t get to that one, so here’s another one - I had NO IDEA

And these digital robber-barons keep getting away with cultural destabilization because their power/money sway in elections muzzles any potential regulation or outcry to stop it. Thanks again, Citizens United v. FEC!

WTF🤯

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