#opensociety — Public Fediverse posts

“Historical oblivion is the default, not the exception”*…

Indeed. And that’s especially true of the institutions that guard the archives that are our cultural heritage. The ongoing transition from physical media sales to digital licensing markets has unleashed a new wave of archival ephemerality, which endangers these memory institutions’ core operations and threatens to plunge society into a digital dark age.

The stakes are high. As Haruki Murakami observed: “Robbing people of their actual history is the same as robbing them of part of themselves. It’s a crime… If our collective memory is taken from us – is rewritten – we lose the ability to sustain our true selves.”

Michael Menna (a Stanford Law Fellow who co-authored the “Our Future Memory” manifesto) and Lila Bailey (Senior Policy Counsel at one of the world’s most crucial repositories, The Internet Archive), call for four digital rights that would allow libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural heritage organizations (“memory institutions”) to uphold their shared public service mission of preserving history and providing access to information…

… We are living through a troubling paradox: Digital technologies have enabled the production and distribution of more information than ever, yet access to that information isincreasingly fragmented and fragile. These technologies should permit us to engage and learn from all the digital content at our fingertips. Instead, many of the basic rights we grew accustomed to in the physical world are now being overtaken by aggressive market tactics that do not reflect the public-interest values the law was meant to protect. If copyright, privacy, and other regulatory frameworks were designed to balance the interests of creators and users with the public’s need to access and contribute to the wealth of human knowledge, then our increasingly digital information economy has thrown that balance out of whack.

In this new media environment, publishers and other content providers have unprecedented power to control knowledge and culture with technical restrictions and exclusionary licensing terms. Governments also have an easier time censoring what people can see by scrubbing their websites and pressuring commercial platforms to do the same. These sudden changes will feel familiar to anyone who has logged onto a streaming service or social media app to find a movie or news story suddenly missing. But for libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural heritage organizations (“memory institutions”), it poses an existential risk to
their core public service mission of preserving culture and protecting history. 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.

We write this paper from our perspective at the Internet Archive, a nonprofit research library that specializes in web archiving, digitization, and the preservation of media in all forms. We feel the harms from these shifts firsthand and hear many of the same complaints from our partner memory institutions around the world. That shared frustration with today’s digital landscape has given rise to an emerging consensus among libraries, archives, museums, and their allies, calling for better legal protections and practical options to continue their services and preserve cultural memory in today’s information age.

This two-part paper (1) presents the looming threat of “vanishing culture” as a first-order political crisis, and (2) discusses the key role that libraries and other memory institutions can play in meeting that crisis.2 In the first part, we examine the underlying causes of vanishing culture and trace its ripple effects along several different facets of modern life: (a) educational resources, (b) journalistic integrity, (c) civic engagement, (d) religious study, and (e) environmental policy. In the second part, we reintroduce a framework of four rights that would ensure memory institutions’ ability to work together to collect, preserve, and provide access to digital materials. This framework rests on the simple proposition that memory institutions should be allowed to do the same things in the digital world that they’ve historically done in the physical world. It originated in the 2024 statement titled Four Digital Rights for Protecting Memory Institutions Online3 before it became a global rallying cry for the Our Future Memory movement and its growing list of library, archive, and museum signatories. Together, these memory institutions are striving to combat the political causes and effects of vanishing culture by speaking with one voice to the importance of memory work in an age of digital ephemerality. That is why we call on all memory institutions, large and small, to sign onto the Statement and join the movement. Individuals and communities need memory institutions to educate themselves and freely participate in civic life, and every time a content provider lets critical information disappear online, it offers further proof that today’s digital markets alone do not constitute a viable alternative. If things do not change soon, we risk sleepwalking into a future where both memory institutions and the public they serve will become passive consumers, rather than active stewards of human knowledge…

Menna and Bailey explain the situation; unpack the four rights they propose: collection, preservation, access, and collaboration; then issue a call to action.

Eminently worth reading in full: “The Political Threats of Vanishing Culture and the Need to Protect Our Future Memory” (PDF here)

See also Vanishing Culture (full PDF here)

And consider joining me in supporting the Internet Archive.

* Jordan Mechner

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As we preserve and share, we might send open birthday greetings to a man who would surely have understood the importance of Menna’s and Bailey’s arguments: Sir Karl Raimund Popper; he was born on this date in 1902.  One of the greatest philosophers of science of the 20th century, Popper is best known for his rejection of the classical inductivist views on the scientific method, in favor of empirical falsification: a theory in the empirical sciences can never be proven, but it can be falsified, meaning that it can and should be scrutinized by decisive experiments.  (Or more simply put, whereas classical inductive approaches considered hypotheses false until proven true, Popper reversed the logic: conclusions drawn from an empirical finding are true until proven false.)

Popper was also a powerful critic of historicism in political thought, and (in books like The Open Society and Its Enemies and The Poverty of Historicism) an enemy of authoritarianism and totalitarianism (in which role he was a mentor to George Soros).

 source

“Historical oblivion is the default, not the exception”*…

Indeed. And that’s especially true of the institutions that guard the archives that are our cultural heritage. The ongoing transition from physical media sales to digital licensing markets has unleashed a new wave of archival ephemerality, which endangers these memory institutions’ core operations and threatens to plunge society into a digital dark age.

The stakes are high. As Haruki Murakami observed: “Robbing people of their actual history is the same as robbing them of part of themselves. It’s a crime… If our collective memory is taken from us – is rewritten – we lose the ability to sustain our true selves.”

Michael Menna (a Stanford Law Fellow who co-authored the “Our Future Memory” manifesto) and Lila Bailey (Senior Policy Counsel at one of the world’s most crucial repositories, The Internet Archive), call for four digital rights that would allow libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural heritage organizations (“memory institutions”) to uphold their shared public service mission of preserving history and providing access to information…

… We are living through a troubling paradox: Digital technologies have enabled the production and distribution of more information than ever, yet access to that information isincreasingly fragmented and fragile. These technologies should permit us to engage and learn from all the digital content at our fingertips. Instead, many of the basic rights we grew accustomed to in the physical world are now being overtaken by aggressive market tactics that do not reflect the public-interest values the law was meant to protect. If copyright, privacy, and other regulatory frameworks were designed to balance the interests of creators and users with the public’s need to access and contribute to the wealth of human knowledge, then our increasingly digital information economy has thrown that balance out of whack.

In this new media environment, publishers and other content providers have unprecedented power to control knowledge and culture with technical restrictions and exclusionary licensing terms. Governments also have an easier time censoring what people can see by scrubbing their websites and pressuring commercial platforms to do the same. These sudden changes will feel familiar to anyone who has logged onto a streaming service or social media app to find a movie or news story suddenly missing. But for libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural heritage organizations (“memory institutions”), it poses an existential risk to
their core public service mission of preserving culture and protecting history. 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.

We write this paper from our perspective at the Internet Archive, a nonprofit research library that specializes in web archiving, digitization, and the preservation of media in all forms. We feel the harms from these shifts firsthand and hear many of the same complaints from our partner memory institutions around the world. That shared frustration with today’s digital landscape has given rise to an emerging consensus among libraries, archives, museums, and their allies, calling for better legal protections and practical options to continue their services and preserve cultural memory in today’s information age.

This two-part paper (1) presents the looming threat of “vanishing culture” as a first-order political crisis, and (2) discusses the key role that libraries and other memory institutions can play in meeting that crisis.2 In the first part, we examine the underlying causes of vanishing culture and trace its ripple effects along several different facets of modern life: (a) educational resources, (b) journalistic integrity, (c) civic engagement, (d) religious study, and (e) environmental policy. In the second part, we reintroduce a framework of four rights that would ensure memory institutions’ ability to work together to collect, preserve, and provide access to digital materials. This framework rests on the simple proposition that memory institutions should be allowed to do the same things in the digital world that they’ve historically done in the physical world. It originated in the 2024 statement titled Four Digital Rights for Protecting Memory Institutions Online3 before it became a global rallying cry for the Our Future Memory movement and its growing list of library, archive, and museum signatories. Together, these memory institutions are striving to combat the political causes and effects of vanishing culture by speaking with one voice to the importance of memory work in an age of digital ephemerality. That is why we call on all memory institutions, large and small, to sign onto the Statement and join the movement. Individuals and communities need memory institutions to educate themselves and freely participate in civic life, and every time a content provider lets critical information disappear online, it offers further proof that today’s digital markets alone do not constitute a viable alternative. If things do not change soon, we risk sleepwalking into a future where both memory institutions and the public they serve will become passive consumers, rather than active stewards of human knowledge…

Menna and Bailey explain the situation; unpack the four rights they propose: collection, preservation, access, and collaboration; then issue a call to action.

Eminently worth reading in full: “The Political Threats of Vanishing Culture and the Need to Protect Our Future Memory” (PDF here)

See also Vanishing Culture (full PDF here)

And consider joining me in supporting the Internet Archive.

* Jordan Mechner

###

As we preserve and share, we might send open birthday greetings to a man who would surely have understood the importance of Menna’s and Bailey’s arguments: Sir Karl Raimund Popper; he was born on this date in 1902.  One of the greatest philosophers of science of the 20th century, Popper is best known for his rejection of the classical inductivist views on the scientific method, in favor of empirical falsification: a theory in the empirical sciences can never be proven, but it can be falsified, meaning that it can and should be scrutinized by decisive experiments.  (Or more simply put, whereas classical inductive approaches considered hypotheses false until proven true, Popper reversed the logic: conclusions drawn from an empirical finding are true until proven false.)

Popper was also a powerful critic of historicism in political thought, and (in books like The Open Society and Its Enemies and The Poverty of Historicism) an enemy of authoritarianism and totalitarianism (in which role he was a mentor to George Soros).

 source

#Education is the might that empowers #democracy.

I should never forget that when people help each other to understand this world, they teach each other how to live freely and peacefully in it.

The truth sets you free.

#Opensociety #Openeducation

#Education is the might that empowers #democracy.

I should never forget that when people help each other to understand this world, they teach each other how to live freely and peacefully in it.

The truth sets you free.

#Opensociety #Openeducation

In 2023, Malaysia fiercely defended its 'morality' against a comedian's jokes. In 2025, it stayed silent as its own officials forged documents in a FIFA scandal. The hypocrisy is clear: we police speech but ignore corruption. Real dignity isn't in outrage—it's in honesty and accountability.

https://kalvin.my/the-hypocrisy-of-moral-superiority-from-jocelyn-chia-2023-to-the-fifa-scandal-2025/

#MoralHypocrisy #Malaysia #FIFAScandal #JocelynChia #Corruption #DigitalRightsMY #PublicOutrage #Accountability #Ethics #NationalDignity #SystemicCorruption #FakeMorality #Transparency #MalaysianPolitics #IntegrityMatters #EndHypocrisy #FIFA2025 #SocialJustice #InstitutionalFailure #TruthOverImage #FightCorruption #MalaysianMedia #CivicDuty #JusticeForAll #Whistleblower #OpenSociety #MalaysianCitizen #GoodGovernance #AntiCorruption #NationalShame #MoralSuperiority #DigitalActivism #RealChange #EthicalLeadership #StandForTruth

In 2023, Malaysia fiercely defended its 'morality' against a comedian's jokes. In 2025, it stayed silent as its own officials forged documents in a FIFA scandal. The hypocrisy is clear: we police speech but ignore corruption. Real dignity isn't in outrage—it's in honesty and accountability.

https://kalvin.my/the-hypocrisy-of-moral-superiority-from-jocelyn-chia-2023-to-the-fifa-scandal-2025/

#MoralHypocrisy #Malaysia #FIFAScandal #JocelynChia #Corruption #DigitalRightsMY #PublicOutrage #Accountability #Ethics #NationalDignity #SystemicCorruption #FakeMorality #Transparency #MalaysianPolitics #IntegrityMatters #EndHypocrisy #FIFA2025 #SocialJustice #InstitutionalFailure #TruthOverImage #FightCorruption #MalaysianMedia #CivicDuty #JusticeForAll #Whistleblower #OpenSociety #MalaysianCitizen #GoodGovernance #AntiCorruption #NationalShame #MoralSuperiority #DigitalActivism #RealChange #EthicalLeadership #StandForTruth

@tagesschau Das Establishment arbeitet weiltweit weiter daran, solche NGO wie oxfam in ihrer Arbeit zu behindern. Gerade in den USA und Europa werden Mittel und Möglichkeiten gestrichen, rechtliche Einschränkungen erweitert, die Medien dazu instrumentalisiert.

#Öffentlichkeitsarbeit = #PublicRelations = #Propaganda

Diese Werkzeuge sind wirksam wie #Marketing und #Werbung, führen (auch) in die Irre, wie #Wahlkampf, #Populismus, #Lobbyismus.

#Medienmanipulation #fakenews #fakten #opensociety

@tagesschau Das Establishment arbeitet weiltweit weiter daran, solche NGO wie oxfam in ihrer Arbeit zu behindern. Gerade in den USA und Europa werden Mittel und Möglichkeiten gestrichen, rechtliche Einschränkungen erweitert, die Medien dazu instrumentalisiert.

#Öffentlichkeitsarbeit = #PublicRelations = #Propaganda

Diese Werkzeuge sind wirksam wie #Marketing und #Werbung, führen (auch) in die Irre, wie #Wahlkampf, #Populismus, #Lobbyismus.

#Medienmanipulation #fakenews #fakten #opensociety

Unfortunately, conservatives didn't ignore #KarlPopper and attacked #GeorgeSoros and his #OpenSociety foundation before anyone realized what they were up to, preemptively blunting the progressive response to this round of #fascism.

Unfortunately, conservatives didn't ignore #KarlPopper and attacked #GeorgeSoros and his #OpenSociety foundation before anyone realized what they were up to, preemptively blunting the progressive response to this round of #fascism.

Wow, #KarlPopper went through a lot of trouble to explain why fascism is bad, and we are just ignoring him.

https://youtube.com/shorts/Rv4t0CEtw7g

#OpenSociety

Wow, #KarlPopper went through a lot of trouble to explain why fascism is bad, and we are just ignoring him.

https://youtube.com/shorts/Rv4t0CEtw7g

#OpenSociety

#Trump s'en prend à nouveau à #Soros et #OpenSociety. Y'a très peu d'acteurs qui financent les asso de défense des libertés numériques européennes. Tout le monde y est passé un jour ou l'autre (LQDN, Access Now, RSF, EDRi, Wikimedia, etc.). https://www.20minutes.fr/monde/etats-unis/4169874-20250828-pourquoi-donald-trump-accuse-encore-george-soros-manipuler-amerique

Hatte bereits 2020 über die antisemitischen #Verschwörungsmythen gegen #Soros & dessen #OpenSociety - Stiftung gepodcastet, die sich den Ideen des großen Liberalen #KarlPopper verpflichtet hat.

Schon damals wurde #Soros von #Orban in #Ungarn attackiert (der selbst 1 Stipendium angenommen hatte), jetzt eben auch von #Trump.

Achtet einfach mal darauf, wer jetzt alles rechts, links & liberal "laut schweigt". Ist interessant.

#Antisemitismus #Dualismus #Feigheit (2/2) https://scilogs.spektrum.de/natur-des-glaubens/verschwoerungsfragen-35-karl-popper-und-george-soros-zwischen-liberalismus-und-verschwoerungsglauben/

Hatte bereits 2020 über die antisemitischen #Verschwörungsmythen gegen #Soros & dessen #OpenSociety - Stiftung gepodcastet, die sich den Ideen des großen Liberalen #KarlPopper verpflichtet hat.

Schon damals wurde #Soros von #Orban in #Ungarn attackiert (der selbst 1 Stipendium angenommen hatte), jetzt eben auch von #Trump.

Achtet einfach mal darauf, wer jetzt alles rechts, links & liberal "laut schweigt". Ist interessant.

#Antisemitismus #Dualismus #Feigheit (2/2) https://scilogs.spektrum.de/natur-des-glaubens/verschwoerungsfragen-35-karl-popper-und-george-soros-zwischen-liberalismus-und-verschwoerungsglauben/

US scientists - your federal government is lost. Set up your own independent structures to help maintain a free society.

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aea9328

#USFederalGovernment #USgov #USscience #ScienceUnderAttack #IndependentScience #ScienceAdvice #SciPol #USSciencePolicy #OpenSociety #OpenInfrastructure

US scientists - your federal government is lost. Set up your own independent structures to help maintain a free society.

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aea9328

#USFederalGovernment #USgov #USscience #ScienceUnderAttack #IndependentScience #ScienceAdvice #SciPol #USSciencePolicy #OpenSociety #OpenInfrastructure

@nsunami @TUEindhoven If research is open, the democratic rights of diverse interests will bring an end to corporate kickbacks, stooges, mercenaries and IP theft? It helps? #OpenResearch #OpenSociety #NoTrumps #NoEmpire #NoTotalitarianWorldOrder #NoGenocides #NoPurges #NoOligarchsEmpires #NoOligarchs #NoEcocide #NoChauvinists #NoRacists #NoAbleists #NoGenderists #No #TheFederation

@nsunami @TUEindhoven If research is open, the democratic rights of diverse interests will bring an end to corporate kickbacks, stooges, mercenaries and IP theft? It helps? #OpenResearch #OpenSociety #NoTrumps #NoEmpire #NoTotalitarianWorldOrder #NoGenocides #NoPurges #NoOligarchsEmpires #NoOligarchs #NoEcocide #NoChauvinists #NoRacists #NoAbleists #NoGenderists #No #TheFederation

#DigitalCommons #GlobalCitizenship #FutureOfDemocracy #PostNationState #CivicTech #ParticipatoryDemocracy #DecentralizedGovernance #DigitalCitizenship #FutureThinking #SystemChange #DesignTheFuture #RadicalImagination #FuturesDesign #UtopiaNow #SocialInnovation #TechForGood #EthicalTech #ClimateJustice #FreedomOfMovement #EquityMatters #GlobalJustice #ReclaimDemocracy #ActivismWorks #DemocracyNow #PowerToThePeople #VoicesUnite #TakeAction #ManifestoInMotion #OpenSociety #Web3ForAll

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✔️ ZeitAbo
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✔️ jährl. WWF Spende
✔️ XAccount weg
✔️ facebookAccount weg
✔️ gafam blocken
✔️ amazonAccount weg
✔️ paypalAccount weg
✔️ Linux auf PC
✔️ LineageOS auf Handy
✔️ FOSS Software
✔️ an OSS spenden
✔️ MsOffice weg
✔️ Adobe Suite weg
✔️ spotify weg
✔️ smartTV privacy erhöhen >> DNS Filter
⭕ chromecast Hifi tauschen
⭕ instagram Account löschen
🤔 Gewerkschaft

unplug annoying elements
#privacy #unplugtrump #fakenews #opensource #opensociety #datenschutz #stopfascism

✔️ Kirchenaustritt
✔️ tazAbo
✔️ ZeitAbo
✔️ KatapultAbo
✔️ jährl. WWF Spende
✔️ XAccount weg
✔️ facebookAccount weg
✔️ gafam blocken
✔️ amazonAccount weg
✔️ paypalAccount weg
✔️ Linux auf PC
✔️ LineageOS auf Handy
✔️ FOSS Software
✔️ an OSS spenden
✔️ MsOffice weg
✔️ Adobe Suite weg
✔️ spotify weg
✔️ smartTV privacy erhöhen >> DNS Filter
⭕ chromecast Hifi tauschen
⭕ instagram Account löschen
🤔 Gewerkschaft

unplug annoying elements
#privacy #unplugtrump #fakenews #opensource #opensociety #datenschutz #stopfascism

The International Humanist Conference 2025 will be held at d'Coque (Centre National Sportif et Culturel) in Luxembourg-City on 5th July. The topic of the conference will be "From Awareness to Action: Strengthening Open Societies through Scientific Literacy". https://www.aha.lu/index.php/news/events/391-international-humanist-conference-2025 #ihc2025 #democracy #opensociety #scientificliteracy

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With in mind the #framing effect due to #terminology (e.g. the concept of "openness" applied to different contexts may show a different "breath"
‣ from #OpenSociety so connected to deepest aspects of #freedom;
‣ to #OpenScience and its even epistemological weight;
‣ up to the more prosaic #OpenSource which may conversely risk losing sight of the core point of #SoftwareFreedom [3]), the discourse on #DigitalSovereignty is very current

E.g.

‣ https://blog.okfn.org/2025/02/11/open-source-policy-and-europes-digital-sovereignty-key-takeaways-from-the-eu-open-source-policy-summit/

‣ https://doi.org/10.11586/2025006

7/
With in mind the #framing effect due to #terminology (e.g. the concept of "openness" applied to different contexts may show a different "breath"
‣ from #OpenSociety so connected to deepest aspects of #freedom;
‣ to #OpenScience and its even epistemological weight;
‣ up to the more prosaic #OpenSource which may conversely risk losing sight of the core point of #SoftwareFreedom [3]), the discourse on #DigitalSovereignty is very current

E.g.

‣ https://blog.okfn.org/2025/02/11/open-source-policy-and-europes-digital-sovereignty-key-takeaways-from-the-eu-open-source-policy-summit/

‣ https://doi.org/10.11586/2025006

Everybody should listen to Yuval Noah Harari in this interview (and others) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWXRfwUeKP4&t=161s #opensociety #digitalsociety #democracy

Everybody should listen to Yuval Noah Harari in this interview (and others) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWXRfwUeKP4&t=161s #opensociety #digitalsociety #democracy

30 anni fa moriva #KarlPopper e ovviamente una vignetta è svilente del suo pensiero. Ma visto che la maggior parte di noi domani non discetterà di #filosofia in un'aula universitaria, e molto più probabilmente parteciperà ad una conversazione in ufficio, al bar o in coda al supermercato, è sempre utile tenere a mente questo paradosso #opensociety

30 anni fa moriva #KarlPopper e ovviamente una vignetta è svilente del suo pensiero. Ma visto che la maggior parte di noi domani non discetterà di #filosofia in un'aula universitaria, ma molto più probabilmente parteciperà ad una conversazione in ufficio, al bar o in coda al supermercato, è sempre utile tenere a mente questo paradosso #opensociety

Polizei Braunschweig kann was😍

Grüße von der Pride in Braunschweig.
Richtig Volksfeststimmung. Aber der Griff des Kapitalismus nach den Ideen und Symbolen ist mächtig.. trotzdem toll wie Laut, friedlich und fröhlich hier heute tausende Menschen zusammenkamen

#csd
#pride
#opensociety
#freedom
#Lautklub

An agreement by the four parties aiming to form a new government, presented on 16 May and debated in the House of Representatives on 22 May, also calls for cuts in science and innovation funding, rollbacks of environment and climate policies, and restrictions on the influx of foreign students.
#science #fascism #authoritarianism #collapse #Netherlands #enlightenment #OpenSociety #innovation #FarRight #illiberalism
https://www.science.org/content/article/new-dutch-right-wing-coalition-cut-research-innovation-and-environmental-protections

An agreement by the four parties aiming to form a new government, presented on 16 May and debated in the House of Representatives on 22 May, also calls for cuts in science and innovation funding, rollbacks of environment and climate policies, and restrictions on the influx of foreign students.
#science #fascism #authoritarianism #collapse #Netherlands #enlightenment #OpenSociety #innovation #FarRight #illiberalism
https://www.science.org/content/article/new-dutch-right-wing-coalition-cut-research-innovation-and-environmental-protections

2/2 You might be living in an authoritarian state if...

"More than 5,100 books were banned in Florida schools from July 2021 through December 2023 — the highest number in the country, according to PEN America."
#liberalism #OpenSociety #authoritarianism #fascism #Books #liberty #education

2/2 You might be living in an authoritarian state if...

"More than 5,100 books were banned in Florida schools from July 2021 through December 2023 — the highest number in the country, according to PEN America."
#liberalism #OpenSociety #authoritarianism #fascism #Books #liberty #education

Liberal democracies that defend enlightenment principles don't ban books.

"But last year, as book bans surged across Florida, they decided that their town needed an independent bookstore where titles that had been purged from libraries and classrooms would be on prominent display."
#liberalism #OpenSociety #authoritarianism #fascism #Books #liberty #education
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/10/books/lauren-groff-bookstore-lynx.html

Liberal democracies that defend enlightenment principles don't ban books.

"But last year, as book bans surged across Florida, they decided that their town needed an independent bookstore where titles that had been purged from libraries and classrooms would be on prominent display."
#liberalism #OpenSociety #authoritarianism #fascism #Books #liberty #education
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/10/books/lauren-groff-bookstore-lynx.html

Diesen Satz schrieb ich vor 17(!) Jahren aus Anlass des zehnjährigen Jubiläums der #ISPA.

Und wo wäre jetzt das Licht am Ende des Tunnels?

#internet #netzpolitik #openSociety

Diesen Satz schrieb ich vor 17(!) Jahren aus Anlass des zehnjährigen Jubiläums der #ISPA.

Und wo wäre jetzt das Licht am Ende des Tunnels?

#internet #netzpolitik #openSociety

An #opensociety requires that debates are carried out in an honest, fair, and respectful way. It is not always easy to detect whether a debater respects these principles. Populists use all kinds of rhetoric tricks to manipulate people. In order to prepare a TV show on #Populismus, German science communicator Mai Thi Nguyen-Kim has launched an experiment on populism on YouTube and most of German’s press fell for it. Absolutely brilliant! https://youtube.com/watch?v=GtBnj3Z3eO4&si=UTIBlED86Y0gqHHC

An #opensociety requires that debates are carried out in an honest, fair, and respectful way. It is not always easy to detect whether a debater respects these principles. Populists use all kinds of rhetoric tricks to manipulate people. In order to prepare a TV show on #Populismus, German science communicator Mai Thi Nguyen-Kim has launched an experiment on populism on YouTube and most of German’s press fell for it. Absolutely brilliant! https://youtube.com/watch?v=GtBnj3Z3eO4&si=UTIBlED86Y0gqHHC

Karl Popper, still-underrated hero of democracy and enemy of totalitarianism; missing a shirt cuff button, decades ago.

Also under consideration, Adam Gopnik, David Foster Wallace and James Thurber

New from me at Popula

https://popula.com/2023/12/10/professor-pop/

#popper #philosophy #opensociety #newyorker #criticism

Karl Popper, still-underrated hero of democracy and enemy of totalitarianism; missing a shirt cuff button, decades ago.

Also under consideration, Adam Gopnik, David Foster Wallace and James Thurber

New from me at Popula

https://popula.com/2023/12/10/professor-pop/

#popper #philosophy #opensociety #newyorker #criticism

Adam Gopnik, Karl Popper, David Foster Wallace, etc.

New from me at Popula

https://popula.com/2023/12/10/professor-pop/

#opensociety #democracy #freedom #paradox

Adam Gopnik, Karl Popper, David Foster Wallace, etc.

New from me at Popula

https://popula.com/2023/12/10/professor-pop/

#opensociety #democracy #freedom #paradox

@uspolitics
#FreedomOfThePress👍#OpenSociety👇

A Fulton County judge on Thursday said that all court proceedings in the election interference case against former President Donald Trump and 18 co-defendants will be live streamed and televised

@danluu And folks, this is why we SHOULD be working on making the algorithm and the code and these things happening behind the scenes open for the public. Only by seeing this with our own eyes we can realize how this can pose a risk to, let me say it please, our understanding of how the world, the economy and 21st Century's democracies work. This repo is a #MustSee.

#thealgorithm #opensociety #freedom

Free online event with the Director of the Bodleian Libraries at the University of Oxford, and Head of Gardens Libraries and Museums at the University, Richard Ovenden.

"Richard Ovenden looks at the central role that libraries and archives play in ensuring knowledge and history are preserved; how political, religious, and cultural motivations can drive censorship, book banning and other threats to our open and civil society, and how the work of libraries and archives are pillars for open society and in support of democracy."

#libraries #librarianship #censorship #OpenSociety #archives #BodleianLibrary #UniversityofOxford #Oxford

https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/richard-ovenden-libraries-as-defenders-of-open-society-registration-523843739727?fbclid=IwAR3jbNI3Y_D5jEPgpCISU4uu0ZcL3Q_p5Sj4q_MqVKMp6o_JVTE3exSDNdE