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Re:By removing “extremist content,” platforms are purging hu... by thinkingkong on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @06:15PM (#21339643)
Been wondering about this phenomenon for awhile. Spotify can delete music history. Youtube can delete video history. If it's on a streaming service it may as well not exist. We're at this strange point where convenience may as well be access, because the same service you used for discovery is the one for consumption. I don't know if this phenomenon has a name.
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Re:By removing “extremist content,” platforms are purging hu... by pixl97 on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @07:55PM (#21340288)
You better start unthinking before you're the one getting put down the memory hole.
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Re:By removing “extremist content,” platforms are purging hu... by fierarul on Thursday October 24, 2019 @03:04AM (#21342344)
Long ago only very rich people or clergymen owned books. They were read out loud to the illiterate at gatherings.
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Re:By removing “extremist content,” platforms are purging hu... by ddiq on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @09:50PM (#21340930)
Likewise Amazon removing books from its site is much more effective than any book burning.
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Re:By removing “extremist content,” platforms are purging hu... by vixen99 on Thursday October 24, 2019 @02:38AM (#21342219)
You can buy them (or if curious, simply see which books have been banned) here http://www.unz.com/bookstore/
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Re:By removing “extremist content,” platforms are purging hu... by Fnoord on Thursday October 24, 2019 @01:37AM (#21341924)
Fahrenheit 451, good movie about that. I just found out Amazon owns Goodreads. They also own IMDB.
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Re:By removing “extremist content,” platforms are purging hu... by ddiq on Thursday October 24, 2019 @02:12AM (#21342087)
An oft-overlooked aspect of Fahrenheit 451 is that it's everyday people that report others to the firemen in the book, very similar to how content is censored these days.

Goodreads will list any book for the time being, even ones banned from Amazon. One example is The Culture of Critique - the link to Amazon goes to a broken page, but links to buy it from other vendors remain.

Link to the book - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/182136.The_Culture_of_Cr...

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Re:By removing “extremist content,” platforms are purging hu... by nixpulvis on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @07:24PM (#21340115)
My feelings exactly.
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