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.
It's part of the fascist playbook
They don’t want their lies to be proven false. Same reason trump regime keeps making private government information that was previously available to the public.
"My lies can't be wrong if I erase all records of the truth"
sucks that the things we need now require regular folks to be their patrons rather than collectively funding them, but here we are…
Your taxes can only go towards kidnappings! /s
Just donated 50 ♥️
❤️Donated. Cash is difficult right now, but I had some crusty old crypto sitting around just shrinking every month - they make it very easy to send some crypto their way so I was happy to dump it.
Thanks errer
Disposable income Lemmings, this is the way
❤️ love you Internet Archive
Thank you for the reminder. I donated 👍
I donated.
Elon Musk will go to any length to scrub this image from the Internet:
The government funded them $345,000.
This is 100% spiteful and not an example of "wasteful government spending"
We can easily crowdfund this. Especially the parts regarding Republican fuckery.
"Those who control the present, control the past and those who control the past control the future."
George Orwell, 1984
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.
Isn't it weird how "doge" just goes after anything that actually benefits people?
They used to burn books. Now they just defund information storage services.
You know what is so ironic? I remember not that long ago (OK, like 20 years ago...) that once something was on the internet, it is there forever as long as file sharing and multiple hosts do it... but it has become abundantly clearly that, despite the fact that it can be REALLY hard to get shit off the internet, it doesn't make it impossible. We've already seen it happen. The truth is, there is so much stuff that people DON'T widely share, and even then, the interest in their sharing in a torrent style is limited (I once downloaded leaked emails regarding transphobic propagandists talking to one another and while I kept seeding for almost a year, I barely got anyone downloading), that it is actually possible to make large amounts of stuff just vanish.
I think the real point of the adage, "once it's on the internet it's there forever" is more about the fact that you, personally, can't take it back. Someone might of screenshot, downloaded it, reuploaded it elsewhere. The real meaning being that, once it's on the internet, you no longer control it. Which I think still holds true, but it definitely was heavily implied that it would be there forever.
$345,000?
That's like, 2 devs and an 8 CPU VM.
Holy shit, that's like not even a rounding error to the US Government. So obvious what he is doing.
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.
Trying to burn digital books. Fascism in 2025.
Both the Internet Archive and Wikipedia are really important. I guess the way is to make alternatives or datahoard in these difficult times.
If we need to just go sit in the street outside the capitol until Trump is removed, I'm in.
I just want to shake conservatives and ask “Why doesn’t your government want you to know things??”
Modern book burnings create a lot less smoke and noise.
Is there a folding@home style of effort I can contribute disk space and bandwidth to?
Ugh some asshole who’s only going to live a century depriving an endless future of historical knowledge. Musk needs to be detained and imprisoned.
Double plus ungood
Who else is waiting to see "DOGE Cuts Funding for Wikipedia"?
noo I found pages there that where offline for years before I read a mention of them 😥
What's the size on this can I download a copy
Pedabytes, but you can help in other ways. Donating, uploading and the Archive Warrior. There may be waits to support via torrents too but I do not know.
Well since I stopped paying federal taxes I might as well donate to the IA directly.
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