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I've been thinking the Library of Congress should buy Archive.org It should become part of an entity that is very difficult to kill, and will exist for a long
by andai 1y ago
I've been thinking the Library of Congress should buy Archive.org
It should become part of an entity that is very difficult to kill, and will exist for a long time.
Although I guess that's a function of culture, and I think respect for libraries is rapidly declining.
- CookieCrisp 1y agoI’d rather not rely on a government owning it that has been very open about their desire to control what people perceive as true
- tdumitrescu 1y agoIf the last 9 months have shown us anything, it's that long-running government institutions are a lot easier to kill than we thought. And the idea of archive.org being under the control an administration like the current one in the US is pretty frightening. They would have absolutely zero qualms about deleting and changing that data.
- elzbardico 1y agoDitto for the other side of the aisle. We still don't know who was really the president, while everyone pretended Biden was not a dementia patient.
- daveidol 1y agoTotally agreed. They are just less obvious about it.
- elzbardico 1y agoFrankly, I envy people who still have sides and that don't see the world as cynically as I do. For me, Clinton, Obama, Bush, Trump, don't matter, just different slave masters for the same system.
- herbst 1y agoDon't make it another American echo pool. Nobody needs more of that