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#culturalvandalism — Public Fediverse posts

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  1. @abcfeeds
    Damned #CulturalVandalism by #NationalParks!

    This is a landscape that has been lived in for tens of thousands of years. And these bureacratic power-mongers want to make it into a artificial playground.

  2. Outrage at plans to develop Turkey’s cultural heritage sites

    The construction of tourist facilities on two beaches that were part of the ancient city of Phaselis – a tentative nominee for Unesco world heritage status – has caused outrage at what is claimed to be the latest example of the Turkish culture ministry sacrificing heritage for tourism.

    theguardian.com/environment/20

    #Turkey #tourism #CulturalVandalism #archaeology #heritage #DisasterCapitalism

  3. “Musk’s project…is best understood not as a money-making endeavor, but as an extended act of cultural vandalism… at its core, Musk’s misadventure at Twitter has been reactionary: an ideological purge of the employees he saw as “woke” and entitled; a gleeful inversion of industry standards around content moderation; a hollowing out of the free product; and a redistribution of the company’s attention and wealth toward right-wing users.” — Casey Newton #Twitter #x #ElonMusk #SocialMedia #BillionaireFolly #ElonIsAWanker #CulturalVandalism #DigitalVandalism

  4. CW: Ukraine war and looting of cultural objects

    A shocking report from Kherson about how the Russian army is removing artefacts that tell the story of the Ukrainian people through the centuries and remove inconvenient truths that Putin would rather they didn't exist.

    youtu.be/AdOPgZnyKL0

    #culturalvandalism #Ukraine #Kherson #war