Cory DoctorowThey Want to Kill Libraries https://doctorow.medium.com/they-want-to-kill-libraries-ec045c06097e
Melissa@pluralistic It's been really really awful. And very hard to get traction in court when libeled. I reported one of their people, got nowhere on Twitter, closed my account.
PJ "Vote Green" Coffey@mtechman @pluralistic that's horrendous! I'm so sorry you've had that happen. Twitter moderation actually has to be adjusted manually to stop all the Right Wing accounts being auto banned for hate speech.
That seems to be a problem they're having right now, and I hope the irony pleases you. 🙏
PoeticLicenseDKListen to Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury on Audible. https://www.audible.com/pd/B00M4PXF6K?source_code=ASSORAP0511160007
Or read it:
Fahrenheit 451 https://g.co/kgs/3yLdDy
Ray Bradbury anticipated an age where all would be glued to screens and books were illegal.
Jason Morse@pluralistic great piece. Thank you. “Librarians are kind of upside-down cops: public employees who are stepping in wherever the rest of our services have failed.”
Robert Y@pluralistic an interesting insight. Thanks
Rachel Maria@pluralistic This is an excellent piece. Thanks Cory. 📚
オレノナハエラーダ@pluralistic A decrease in libraries will only increase piracy. The books themselves aren’t going to go away, nor is the means by which to acquire said books. The only people that are going to be suffering the long term effects of this are us authors and our already dwindling profit margins.
Brad Dudenhoffer@pluralistic Good article and thank you for sharing. Our society has forgotten how to think. My wife was recently the president of the Missouri Library Association and the amount of random nonsense attacks on public libraries she dealt with on a weekly basis was eye opening.
On the Media@pluralistic quick plug for this week's show https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/episodes/on-the-media-infinite-scroll
