Tim Carvell: 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...

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

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

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🤯

This reminds me a bit of the 1960s BBC destroying all kinds of programs on tape because they didn't want to have to pay for the storage. Lots of shows lost as a result.

PS I don't know what the storage situation is for the Daily Show. (Can you buy old episodes? Is it backed up somewhere?) OTOH to the degree to which "everything is online", this is throwing that bit of cultural history down the memory hole.

As sad as it is that the online archive is unavailable, it seems fairly unlikely that Paramount actually destroyed all the original media. "Not available for free online" is not the same as "totally wiped from our private archives."

Agreed!

There’s a collection of old Daily Shows available for purchase on Amazon Prime (I bought it last week, so hopefully safe if they try to pull it too). Some of the great ones included but obviously there’s no way to capture the entire corpus in one collection.

It's not a cost issue. It's a "take down liberal content" issue.

Dr Who

Exactly!!! Cue the years of quests to find lost episodes.

And almost Monty Python

And I was just reading, Not The 1948 Show went unseen for decades.

Not even that, they wanted to reuse the tape.

At least the 1960s BBC was short on videotapes and storage space at the time. What possible excuse besides money and lack of imagination can Paramount claim here??

Oh, I'm sure this is just about money and they think that that's enough

Because immediate cost cuts are more important to Paramount than cultural legacy

I got nothing.

At least that one is more justifiable because the resell market wasn't a thing at a time. Still short-sighted as hell on both preservation and future market fronts (plus potentially others I'm forgetting) but at least it wasn't naked greed at work.

Also, the actual video tape was expensive (or at least that's what I heard a BBC person say) but that doesn't preclude what you say about storage costs, of course.

Yeah, I forgot about that, and that the cost was so high that everyone wanted to reuse tape to cut costs.

I hate hearing about all of these archives being ripped down, to save a measley couple of shekels

Sorry what does this have to do with Israeli currency exactly?

Oh go be offended about something else. Or go learn idiomatic sayings or something. But these are not the outrages you are looking for

Yeah that's fair i didn't expect to google this and find 6,000 results. my bad, i'm really only familiar with the ironic 4chan version of "shekels" in sayings.

4chan is not a good training ground for tone policing eh

I know the anti-semitic use or shekels from experiencing weirdo right wingers (and irl ironic!1 racists) saying it out in the open.

He should have said pesos?

Jon Stewart's post-9/11 speech about healing and coming together, and how freedom will win ... I guess it was too woke

Stephen Colbert reporting on Trump. Jon Stewart kibitzing. All gone. WashPo and NYT getting far more right-wing. Concidence?

And they wonder why people torrent like its 2001 again.

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