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It's not a game. It's resistance by every mean available against corporations that want control over what knowledge we have access to. He did an unexpected and
by slim 4y ago
It's not a game. It's resistance by every mean available against corporations that want control over what knowledge we have access to. He did an unexpected and courageous move for the benefit of humanity. The Internet Archive is a huge responsibility because if not exhaustive, it could falsify history. It's leaders mandate is to preserve history, not to preserve what they let him preserve
- groby_b 4y agoThis is, frankly, hot air. The IA resisted nothing, achieved nothing, made nobody's life better, and created an opportunity for bad precedent. It was an utterly boneheaded move. (It has also nothing to do with "exhaustive preservation")
- fsflover 4y agoGiving access to knowledge to people is the opposite of nothing.
- groby_b 4y agoThat knowledge was readily available through numerous other legal channels. Libraries do virtual lending. What the IA did in that instance was a reckless gesture that did not change actual ability to access. That's worse than nothing, it's a net negative. You seem to somehow conflate this instance with everything else the IA does. I'm not debating that their overall purpose is good and necessary. I'm saying this particular action was a spectacularly bad idea.