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Is it likely that the Executive Branch would try to exert control over it to remove "inconvenient" data?
by MPSimmons 1y ago
Is it likely that the Executive Branch would try to exert control over it to remove "inconvenient" data?
- ranger_danger 1y agoImagine having to delete their 100PB of warez.
- rwmj 1y agoWait til you hear about my local library. You can walk in and read or borrow any book without paying!
- natas 1y agoI wish my public library was free...
- GeorgeTirebiter 1y agoSounds VERY Communist, or Socialist, or some other scary thing. Are you sure it's legal? Why, the AUTHORS and PUBLISHERS are being denied the revenues they would get if you would buy the book; or at least rent it. So, are libraries theft of Authors' and Publishers' renumeration? (And, to think, the richest man in the world at the time, Andrew Carnegie, endowed so many Libraries!)
- nope577 1y agoYour shift key seems to keep getting stuck.
- 1659447091 1y agoSounds outdated! My library doesnt even require me to walk in anymore, they send any book I want to read or listen to straight to my phone, and if they don't have it I can request they acquire it and send it to me for free
- NoMoreNicksLeft 1y agoWait until you hear about my private library that resides on a Synology NAS. I can access it from anywhere in the world, on any device, and it's filled with whatever books I can bother to decide that I want that title. I have about 20,000 (not counting periodicals) all carefully curated and retail quality. I even got rid of those annoying generic Bantam Press covers and replaced them with the high-res stuff off the publisher's site. Not sure what the appeal of the public library is, when you can have your own.
- thunderfork 1y ago[dead]
- BSOhealth 1y agogiven this is already happening with many other taxpayer funded datasets, will pretty on brand with this group
- jahewson 1y agoDoubtful. They’re not part of the government so the 1st amendment applies.
- odo1242 1y agoI mean, what would they do to exert control? Remove their federal depository status?
- layman51 1y agoThey already remove “inconvenient” webpages on the Wayback Machine if someone asks nicely enough. If I remember correctly, if you use it to save a software company’s documentation pages or evidence of something embarrassing like a potential data breach, they could remove it if the company asks. I think Oracle might have done something like this before.
- 01HNNWZ0MV43FF 1y agoIf anyone reading knows an easy way to download and mirror IA pages please make it easier to find. A bot told me they offer downloads of the underlying WARC files but I could not find it
- fancy_pantser 1y agoThere are utilities to help, waybackpack comes to mind, but I haven't looked in a while. https://github.com/jsvine/waybackpack https://github.com/jsvine/waybackpack
- badlibrarian 1y agoThey locked away most .warc files due to the AI harvesting crunch.
- duskwuff 1y ago> A bot told me they offer downloads of the underlying WARC files but I could not find it The "bot" is wrong. Most of the crawl data used by the Internet Archive, particularly the Alexa crawls, isn't publicly accessible. (This is because some of it includes archived pages which have since been suppressed by the site owner - removing those pages from the archived crawl data isn't practical.) https://archive.org/details/alexacrawls https://archive.org/details/alexacrawls Common Crawl data is public, but less comprehensive than IA - https://commoncrawl.org/ https://commoncrawl.org/
- pabs3 1y agoI used wayback-machine-downloader, I think you need one of the forks to make it work though. https://github.com/hartator/wayback-machine-downloader https://github.com/hartator/wayback-machine-downloader
- chrisg23 1y agoI've heard it has already happened. Specifically the internet archive removed vidoes of the TempleOS developer Terry Davis' live streams because of problematic content. If the internet archive is already curated for content then yeah there is a 100% chance that there will be more curation of content.
- jazzyjackson 1y agoKiwifarms as well. They are a bit of a pushover when it comes to controversy.
- jprd 1y agoI thought Archive just removed access, but kept the content. I know that from a user perspective that is a distinction without a difference, but for posterity it matters. Does anyone have any facts/citations on if this is a myth/coping mechanism I created, or reality?
- cwillu 1y ago“2023 The Internet Archive, a non-profit research library, makes use of internal processes and tools, including human review and hash-matching, as well as reports from external parties to identify, disable access to, and limit the reappearance of illegal and/or proscribed violent extremist material on archive.org” https://help.archive.org/help/tco-transparency-reports/ https://help.archive.org/help/tco-transparency-reports/
- chrisg23 1y agoI wonder how many gems like this https://archive.org/details/youtube-moXX8lbnmHs https://archive.org/details/youtube-moXX8lbnmHs that could have been saved have been lost. (Obviously this one is saved, for now.) This is not to disparage the tremendous work done and being done by the IA, it's more of me lamenting the trend of our society and societies to mentally babysit people lest their mind gets exposed to something bad, with the implicit assumption that adult humans can't be trusted to see some stupid bs and react with "that was some stupid bs. I am moving it into the stupid bs bucket of things I know about".
- toomuchtodo 1y agoIt's a one way street. This provides more access to materials held by the federal gov for ingest into IA's storage system. Bit of a policy interconnect, if you will. Reminder to donate to the Archive.
- themgt 1y agoIf you see a bank that says "federally chartered" or "federal deposit insurance corporation", stay clear!