Free speech matters. So does the ability to verify what's true.

Without a stable historical record, accountability becomes harder, evidence disappears, and public debate suffers.

Michael Menna and Lila Bailey argue that preserving our shared memory is essential to democracy in THE POLITICAL THREATS OF VANISHING CULTURE AND THE NEED TO PROTECT OUR FUTURE MEMORY.

📖 Read or download the paper today ⬇️
https://journals.library.wustl.edu/pollib/article/id/9287/

#VanishingCulture #memoryhole

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Greenish-black graphic quoting Michael Menna and Lila Bailey, in The Political Librarian, with the quote "The entire project of history depends on this process, which means that it depends on the ability to keep and transmit information across time.

📚 Culture doesn’t have to be censored to disappear. 🕳️

Sometimes all it takes is an expired license. 📼💿

In THE POLITICAL THREATS OF VANISHING CULTURE AND THE NEED TO PROTECT OUR FUTURE MEMORY, Michael Menna and Lila Bailey argue that preserving our shared memory has become one of the defining political challenges of the digital age. 🏛️

📖 Read or download the paper ⬇️
https://journals.library.wustl.edu/pollib/article/id/9287/

#VanishingCulture #memoryhole

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Grey-green graphic quoting Michael Menna and Lila Bailey, in The Political Librarian, with the quote "The vanishing culture crisis is so much bigger than paying high prices for the unreliable offerings of a streaming service. It represents a first-order threat to the project of historical preservation and, consequently, the intellectual freedoms and democratic participation that depend on it."

🌐 Websites vanish. 📰 News archives go offline. 📚 Textbooks are withdrawn. 🏛️ Government reports are deleted.

What happens when the historical record starts disappearing?

The Internet Archive and the Our Future Memory movement explore why "vanishing culture" is becoming a political crisis in THE POLITICAL THREATS OF VANISHING CULTURE AND THE NEED TO PROTECT OUR FUTURE MEMORY.

📖 Read or download the paper here ⬇️
https://journals.library.wustl.edu/pollib/article/id/9287/

#VanishingCulture #memoryhole

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Teal graphic quoting Michael Menna and Lila Bailey, in The Political Librarian, with the quote "When these organizations can no longer collect and provide access to digital materials, members of the public cannot place their trust in a stable record—which affects their ability to confidently participate in democratic discourse."

I tried: https://a.gup.pe/u/opensource

And instead of the group page I got the page shown in the attached image.

#MemoryHole #GuppeGroups #Fediverse #Groups