1. Trek Classic will have to go, too… Uhura may have been progressively transgressive back in the day, but she’s totally unacceptable by next week’s standards. Likewise Sulu. And I’m sure there’ll be some combination of buzzwords to describe Spock in such a way that he, too, must be fed into the memory hole.

   1. Not Sulu or Spock. Takei is favored because post-ST he’s made his entire persona about being gay and liberal. And Nimoy was as liberal as Takei is now, although -slightly- more reserved.
      Great actors and I still love the characters they portrayed, but I truly wish they’d kept to playing roles other people wrote for them.
      If ST:TOS gets purged, it will be because of Shatner and Jimmy Doohan, who never did fit into any generation’s “progressive” mould.

2. Damn it, Now I feel like I have to put my pirate hat back on form my misspent youth and save the history of good cinema and music.

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   1. I have.

3. “Heat” is an excellent movie!

4. For better or worse, in some ways it will be eager to make purges now, thanks to most things being digitized and the accompanying perception that physical media is an anachronism that we don’t really need anymore.

   Amazon, for instance, can reach out and “update” your Kindle content without your knowledge – and, presumably, consent if it came to it.

   Perhaps more to the point, most of us don’t actually buy copies of anything anymore; and when we do, we’re generally buying access, not ownership. For instance if you buy a movie in digital form from Amazon, it generally lives on their server, and you stream it when you want it. You don’t actually have possession.

   It’s cheaper, it’s convenient as all get-out – so long as you have internet access – and you have fewer and worse options for preserving and archiving the content.

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   1. 100% correct. I had to downsize severely and gave up a room full of books for a shelf-full, Kindle, and Amazon Prime. I am rethinking this strategy.

      1. Yeah, there’s much to be said for having a collection of books on paper, or at least stored locally in some non-vendor-dependent format. If they’re digital, make backups on various media (flash drive, HDD, CD-R, 9-track, whatever).
         The really important ones need to be on paper, in case of massive technology failures.
         Incidentally, formerly-public information has been vanishing from the Web for quite some time. A decade back, I looked for details of how a Geiger–Müller tube is constructed and found nothing but dead links; technical information published in the 1930s was being memory-holed, perhaps because of ITAR. (Wikipedia now seems to have most of the information I was looking for, but at the time I was finding references to detailed DIY instructions, with the instructions themselves having disappeared.)

   2. I have a Nook, not a Kindle, so the details are probably different. Either way, an option you should look at is to install the Calibre e-book library program onto your computer. Then load all your ebooks into that (and back them up of course). You now have your own copies of those files, independent of Amazon or B&N.
      Things get a little trickier if the ebook is encrypted (“DRM”) but there are tools to handle that.

5. “Follow the money” applies. A lot of older media is far superior to that being puked out today.
   So, if you can’t remake it, re-imagine it, re-boot it, or use the old thing to make money, you can purge it so your product doesn’t look as shoddy.

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6. It was a good movie, well worth the purchase, unlike most of the more recent crap. But why would you buy it from Amazon? They are the enemy and they don’t deserve a dime of your money.

   There are dozens of books and movies I want but don’t own for one and only one reason, because Amazon is either the publisher or the only source.

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