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submitted 3 months ago by WhatSay@slrpnk.net to c/news@lemmy.world

"This is really going to impact institutions that we take for granted," Internet Archive director of archiving and data services Jefferson Bailey told the Standard, "like our museums, our historical societies, our public libraries, our academic libraries — just a lot of people that keep information free and accessible and online."

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[-] ElysianBladeRunner@lemm.ee 330 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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.

[-] Fingolfinz@lemmy.world 66 points 3 months ago

They don’t deserve lineages

[-] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 51 points 3 months ago

It's part of the fascist playbook

[-] Daggity@lemm.ee 32 points 3 months ago

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.

[-] Fedizen@lemmy.world 23 points 3 months ago

"My lies can't be wrong if I erase all records of the truth"

[-] errer@lemmy.world 234 points 3 months ago

https://archive.org/donate

sucks that the things we need now require regular folks to be their patrons rather than collectively funding them, but here we are…

[-] Sprocketfree@sh.itjust.works 79 points 3 months ago

Your taxes can only go towards kidnappings! /s

[-] ogeist@lemmy.world 34 points 3 months ago

Just donated 50 ♥️

[-] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 32 points 3 months ago

❤️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.

[-] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 30 points 3 months ago

Thanks errer

Disposable income Lemmings, this is the way

❤️ love you Internet Archive

[-] SerotoninSwells@lemmy.world 28 points 3 months ago

Thank you for the reminder. I donated 👍

[-] Kolonel_Kahlua@lemmy.world 21 points 3 months ago
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[-] scops@reddthat.com 208 points 3 months ago

Elon Musk will go to any length to scrub this image from the Internet:

[-] kn0wmad1c@programming.dev 184 points 3 months ago

The government funded them $345,000.

This is 100% spiteful and not an example of "wasteful government spending"

[-] rusticus@lemm.ee 32 points 3 months ago

We can easily crowdfund this. Especially the parts regarding Republican fuckery.

[-] LanguageIsCool@lemmy.world 25 points 3 months ago

America, where the good stuff is funded on the side.

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[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 122 points 3 months ago

Extremists always destroy history so they can write their own.

[-] SerotoninSwells@lemmy.world 117 points 3 months ago

"Those who control the present, control the past and those who control the past control the future."

George Orwell, 1984

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[-] PunkRockSportsFan@fanaticus.social 102 points 3 months ago

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.

[-] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 86 points 3 months ago

Musk should really be removed from power.

[-] TronBronson@lemmy.world 28 points 3 months ago

Vacation to El Salvador. Permanent.

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[-] portnull@lemmy.dbzer0.com 81 points 3 months ago

They used to burn books. Now they just defund information storage services.

[-] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 37 points 3 months ago

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.

[-] jacksilver@lemmy.world 21 points 3 months ago

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.

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[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 81 points 3 months ago

Isn't it weird how "doge" just goes after anything that actually benefits people?

[-] iowagneiss@midwest.social 30 points 3 months ago

To be replaced by something privately funded, if at all.

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[-] pHr34kY@lemmy.world 66 points 3 months ago

$345,000?

That's like, 2 devs and an 8 CPU VM.

[-] prole 44 points 3 months ago

Holy shit, that's like not even a rounding error to the US Government. So obvious what he is doing.

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[-] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 56 points 3 months ago

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.

[-] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 52 points 3 months ago

Trying to burn digital books. Fascism in 2025.

[-] obbeel@lemmy.eco.br 51 points 3 months ago

Both the Internet Archive and Wikipedia are really important. I guess the way is to make alternatives or datahoard in these difficult times.

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[-] dan00@lemm.ee 51 points 3 months ago

Europe here: can we have it? 😅

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[-] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 48 points 3 months ago

If we need to just go sit in the street outside the capitol until Trump is removed, I'm in.

[-] courageousstep@lemm.ee 44 points 3 months ago

I just want to shake conservatives and ask “Why doesn’t your government want you to know things??”

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[-] ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 43 points 3 months ago

Modern book burnings create a lot less smoke and noise.

[-] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 37 points 3 months ago

Is there a folding@home style of effort I can contribute disk space and bandwidth to?

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[-] hedhoncho@lemm.ee 37 points 3 months ago

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.

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[-] Bluefalcon@discuss.tchncs.de 36 points 3 months ago
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[-] AtariDump@lemmy.world 29 points 3 months ago

Double plus ungood

[-] plantmoretrees@lemm.ee 29 points 3 months ago

He is literally a foreign terrorist. Deport his ass!

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[-] finder585@lemmy.world 28 points 3 months ago

Who else is waiting to see "DOGE Cuts Funding for Wikipedia"?

[-] yiyijiji@europe.pub 27 points 3 months ago

noo I found pages there that where offline for years before I read a mention of them 😥

[-] chalupapocalypse@lemmy.world 26 points 3 months ago

What's the size on this can I download a copy

[-] fossilesque@mander.xyz 36 points 3 months ago

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.

http://warrior.archiveteam.org/

[-] AlecSadler@sh.itjust.works 22 points 3 months ago

Well since I stopped paying federal taxes I might as well donate to the IA directly.

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