Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle said that while the nonprofit organization has always functioned as a library, this new designation makes it easier to work with the other federal depository libraries. That, he said, is a service to everyone.
“ I think there is a great deal of excitement to have an organization such as the Internet Archive, which has physical collections of materials, but is really known mostly for being accessible as part of the internet,” Kahle said. “And helping integrate these materials into things like Wikipedia, so that the whole internet ecosystem gets stronger as digital learners get closer access into the government materials.”
Seems like a terrible idea given what our federal government has become.
This means Trump can finally de-fund them
Guys fast! Save everything that annoys Trump, fast!
I’m inclined to consider it a honeypot tbh. Its too damn sus that the US government suddenly likes something like this.
You… know the US government isn’t a person, right?
Typically, no. This term, however…
Well, it’s just the one state so far, and it was blessed by a senator that Trump and crew habitually seem to bully, so maybe it’s different for now?
From what I hear as an outsider it‘s a bunch of fucking losers for the most part. Feel free to correct me if I‘m wrong, though.
Sure, but “bunch” is the operative word here. People in government don’t agree with each other, kinda by design.
In this particular case this is a thing any one member of Congress can do unilaterally and a democrat senator from California just decided to do it. That particular fucking loser probably doesn’t agree with a bunch of the other fucking losers on a bunch of stuff, including this one.
You hit the nail on the head.
Does this mean now they can be ordered to take down content?
I can’t see anything good coming from this
How so? As far as I can tell all this means is they’re added to a list of official places storing public documents. Beyond the slight bragging rights, slightly increased sense of legitimacy in upcoming lawsuits and… I guess the server costs? this seems pretty neutral. I don’t even think you need the official designation to actually store the documents in question.
Lookup who the current dictator is of the US and you’ll have your answer.
So nothing good can come from this.
Why?
Donald Trump.
How does that follow? Again I ask, you are aware that the US government has more than one person in it, right?
Ah yes. Lets not forget about the other one, felon musk
If it wasn’t several PB (yes, petabytes) of data I’d want a backup.
DEI and trans people removed, with the latter soon redirecting to a christian psychologist’s website about “cluster B abuse” in 3…
