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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 time.

Although I guess that's a function of culture, and I think respect for libraries is rapidly declining.

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If 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.

Ditto 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.

Totally agreed. They are just less obvious about it.

Frankly, 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.

I’d rather not rely on a government owning it that has been very open about their desire to control what people perceive as true

Don't make it another American echo pool. Nobody needs more of that

All right, one of the other countries that cares about free speech can buy it ;)

How about no country needs to own something like this. And if one does there are dozen of western countries with better freedom of speech record.

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