I'm talking about precious data being destroyed by anti-intellectuals because their predecessors didn't foresee that possibility. There are no delusions here. You're just being unimaginative, hyperbolic and histrionic.
> For gosh sake, the internet is public, nothing is being truly erased, published papers will be there for literally all of time. The publishing industry may control some distribution for a very short period of time but it's not relvant in the grand scheme
Is that what you see happening here? Didn't the Internet Archive race to save the data from the websites of US research institutions before they were deleted by the current regime? They could have done it with ease if they had started as soon as the election results were out. This is not to say that IA is inefficient. It's to point out that while the Internet has a great preservation ability, it's not perfect and hardly always the case. There are a lot of data that aren't sufficiently protected.
Instead of trying to even understand that possibility, you go on a shallow and low-effort dismissal with excess drama. Is that the quality of discussion now?