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History Wipeout?

This is complicated – archive organizations that offer information for free may lose, in court, their ability to archive and offer information for free. Archive.org is a risk. There is no guarantee that the Library of Congress, the Smithsonian, as well as national archives of a number of countries will remain open for free.

NANMYKEL.COM

I’d like to hear from you on this one. An Opinion Guest Essay in the NY Times June 21, 2023 appears to be a warning voice in the wilderness about the unregulated loss of history via the internet.  Titled The World’s Digital Memory Is at Risk, it is by Nanna Bonde Thylstrup. Dr. Thylstrup is a professor at the University of Copenhagen.

“As a scholar of digital data, I know that not all data loss — the corrosion and destruction of our digital past — is tragic. But much data loss today occurs in ways that are deeply unjust and that have monumental implications for both culture and politics. Few nonprofit organizations or publicly backed digital libraries are able to operate at the scale needed to truly democratize control of digital knowledge. Which means important decisions about how these issues play out are left to powerful, profit-driven corporations or political…

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