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I think it's in the National Interest of the United States to have an Internet Archive, available to all. The NSA and NARA should both have copies of the Intern

I think it's in the National Interest of the United States to have an Internet Archive, available to all. The NSA and NARA should both have copies of the Internet Archive. NARA should be responsible for the public facing side and the NSA should make sure it doesn't get hacked and remains available. If the NSA doesn't want to take on this task, then they shouldn't be allowed to have an archive of all of our data, including surveilled data, and should hand it off exclusively to NARA. The NSA should then have to convince a court they need access every time they "need" it. Furthermore, Copyright needs reform, and an explicit law protecting archives.

toomuchtodo 2y ago
I trust Brewster and the rest of the IA gang more than the US government to safeguard the Internet Archive. The US cares more about copyright and IP rent seeking than preserving culture and universal access to all knowledge. If the US government via NARA wants to pay for their own IA replica and donate to the Internet Archive to offset the ops costs to stream updates, I would support that. Separation between Archive and State. More replicas globally, regardless of sponsoring institution or colocation facility. This mitigates against disasters, both natural and human, inherently. > Furthermore, Copyright needs reform, and an explicit law protecting archives. US becomes more hostile to the Internet Archive? Pull up stakes, update DNS and/or BGP, and move on to someplace that respects them. Disk and compute can live anywhere globally. Don't get mad, get durable. Let economic termites chase distributed object storage around the world until they're tired.
indymike 2y ago
Why the Library of Congress or some other over budgeted agency can't archive the web is beyond me.