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archive.org is located in the US, therefore it's not safe from purges. Better also backup important data locally and abroad.

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archive.org is not a US federal agency, and therefore the US federal government can't simply cut off their funding and fire everyone. What the executive branch is doing is highly illegal and there will be litigative pushback soon, but I digress.

Should we stop donating to food banks just because USAID got cut? No. These are the institutions we have, right now. Let's do what we can with them.

I agree with you, and I support archive.org, but let's be clear.

The US gov could shut them down tomorrow. Illegally, but that's not stopping them elsewhere right now.

So support archive.org, and support backups elsewhere.

The better argument against archive.org is that they have put themselves in a legally precarious position that may result in the destruction of the organization.

I’d love to see it stay around, but maybe we should have competing archivists in different regions

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