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"This is really going to impact institutions that we take for granted," Internet Archive director of archiving and data services Jefferson Bailey told the Standard, "like our museums, our historical societies, our public libraries, our academic libraries — just a lot of people that keep information free and accessible and online."

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[–] KMAMURI@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 children)

Honest question...Can we just pop all that on a server in Canada or something? Couldn't the devs make a deal with another country not bound by your IP law or "government" to save your history along with that of other countries as well?

I'm gonna ask my MP as well.

[–] yigruzeltil@lemm.ee 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

lemmy.world

Why, where is lemmy.world based?

[–] KMAMURI@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Meaning the entire Internet archive.

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[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 125 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Extremists always destroy history so they can write their own.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] baltakatei@sopuli.xyz 11 points 1 day ago

I doubt the Library of Alexandria had permission from all rights holders to hold copies of many books. /s

[–] ours@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Recent inconvinient history. They love to dig up ancient "glory days" (e.g., Ancient Rome, Teutonic knights...) and attach them to their image.

[–] pipes@sh.itjust.works 24 points 1 day ago (2 children)

They're not meticulous historians though. LGBTQ people were more accepted in the Roman Republic (and in ancient Greek) than today.

"Caius Julius Caesar: husband to all the wives, wife to all the husbands." was a saying that my Latin professor taught us in school.

[–] yigruzeltil@lemm.ee 9 points 1 day ago (4 children)

They’re not meticulous historians though. LGBTQ people were more accepted in the Roman Republic (and in ancient Greek) than today.

“Caius Julius Caesar: husband to all the wives, wife to all the husbands.” was a saying that my Latin professor taught us in school.

Being AMAB and bottom was stigmatized to the point their swearing system revolved around emasculation threats, so that's different from what the queer movement of today aims for...

[–] absentbird@lemm.ee 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Our swearing system in modern English revolves around sex, violence and infidelity, but our society is also kinda into those things. Societies are complicated.

Edit: also sometimes people still say shit about bottoms when they curse.

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[–] azha@lemm.ee 7 points 1 day ago

Oh gosh Internet archive saw a lot of shit but continued their work no mater what, I got most of old ROMs there its a great digital museum but wrong people in wrong places of power will ruin every beneficial things out there.

[–] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 57 points 1 day ago

I am not now, nor have I ever been a Christian, but shit like this makes me go Jesus Fucking Christ.

Archive.org is a critical repository of knowledge and archiving the internet. Elon has cut nothing, but damaged a ton. It is kinda incredible how many damage he has done.

[–] Rhoeri@lemmy.world 61 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Elon Musk is what you’d get if you gave the illusion of personality to a 4Chan troll.

[–] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

Elon Musk is what you get when "it is not a phase mom" is a credo.

[–] whotookkarl@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago

He's the poster child for scared, greedy, paranoid nepo babies shielded from reality by wealth inheritance and wealth inequality, incapable of empathy turning him into a fascist bigot idiot trying to kill other people to hoard more money.

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[–] scops@reddthat.com 204 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Elon Musk will go to any length to scrub this image from the Internet:

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[–] kn0wmad1c@programming.dev 184 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The government funded them $345,000.

This is 100% spiteful and not an example of "wasteful government spending"

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 2 points 20 hours ago

Spitefulness is the point. Trying to make progressives cry. "Owning the libs".

When donvict talked about being "your" retribution, he was throwing red meat to complete dumbasses because this is the kind of shit he is planning for them. Performative bullshit that will do nothing for the base, and certainly nothing for normal Americans.

[–] rusticus@lemm.ee 31 points 1 day ago (5 children)

We can easily crowdfund this. Especially the parts regarding Republican fuckery.

[–] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 7 points 1 day ago

I give 5$ every month to wikipedia. I can give another 5$ to archive.org every month.

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[–] ElysianBladeRunner@lemm.ee 328 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

They want to remove anything that keeps history accountable. This anti accountability regime don’t want their sins to be remembered. Imagine the linage of these assholes. How they will be looked down upon because their ancestors are are bigots and liars.

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[–] Bluefalcon@discuss.tchncs.de 35 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You are far more generous and capable than I am. I started a monthly 5 dollar donation.

[–] Bluefalcon@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 day ago

Every penny helps.

[–] obbeel@lemmy.eco.br 51 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Both the Internet Archive and Wikipedia are really important. I guess the way is to make alternatives or datahoard in these difficult times.

[–] pulsewidth@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Why make alternatives when these fantastic organizations already exist? It's not the first time they've come under fire and it definitely won't be the last.

If vandalous cunts like Musk wish for them to go away and will de-fund them to that end, best thing we can do is donate to them and spread the word they need help.

[–] gabbath@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Why make alternatives when these fantastic organizations already exist? It's not the first time they've come under fire and it definitely won't be the last.

You've answered your own question: because one day they might not take the fire and collapse. It's like saying it's not the first time your old HDD has been showing bad sectors and definitely won't be the last. That's all the more reason to make a backup!

I agree with you that we should donate to them and make them more people-funded, but ideally you want that taken care of through public funding coming out of taxes. You can't just sustain every single entity through individual donations.

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[–] errer@lemmy.world 230 points 2 days ago (8 children)

https://archive.org/donate

sucks that the things we need now require regular folks to be their patrons rather than collectively funding them, but here we are…

[–] Sprocketfree@sh.itjust.works 78 points 2 days ago

Your taxes can only go towards kidnappings! /s

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[–] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 50 points 1 day ago

Trying to burn digital books. Fascism in 2025.

[–] boogiebored@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

He is such a poser.

[–] SerotoninSwells@lemmy.world 114 points 2 days ago (4 children)

"Those who control the present, control the past and those who control the past control the future."

George Orwell, 1984

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[–] AtariDump@lemmy.world 31 points 1 day ago

Double plus ungood

They are scared because the people don’t want things to go back to the way they were.

The people want them gone.

And it’s 100% justified.

They know they deserve to be handed over to the mob.

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