Tensions Between Archivists and 'Occupy' Protesters Over Preserving the Movement

An anonymous reader writes "At one point an NYU librarian literally got into a shouting match with a protester at an Occupy protest, trying to make the case for why a digital record should be kept of photos, videos, audio recordings, posters, and other materials, so future scholars and activists can recount what happened. Academics are taking unusual steps to preserve the protesters' stuff, including 'distributing postcards promoting archiving at protests, developing automated systems to download photos posted online, and asking participants to vote on which images are most important for the historic record.'"

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No, they were not

[Anonymous Coward]

A bunch of poor people protest the fact that the rich have too much by trespassing, loitering, and basically just sitting on their asses for days on end.

Yes, there is terrible injustice in the world. No, this is not an effective way of doing something about it.

Re:The anonymity they deserve...?

[Anonymous Coward]

Well, at least the Tea party accomplished something.

Re:Yes, that was called the "Tea Party"

[Microlith]

Santorum? He was out of office before the Tea Party ever existed.

But now he's running for President. And before him there was Bachmann, who hadn't a clue in her head.

Maybe you should look at what the true Tea Party stood for instead of just mindlessly believing what their enemies say. The Tea Party was about fiscal issues, nothing more.

No they weren't. They certainly weren't for sane fiscal issues, preferring to scream about taxes in a way that was only useful to the richest and advocating only tax cuts while completely not putting forward any solutions to the debt issue. And the social conservatives came along for the ride, getting their regressive idiots into office all over the country.