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The Internet Archive is an important resource and needs to be saved. (www.techradar.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 58 points 10 months ago (8 children)

Not a good idea for three reasons:

  • the assumption that this will stop lawsuits is very generous, especially when we consider that there are other countries than the US that have lawyers and IP too
  • putting such an important task in the hands of a government that might be controlled by whatever extremist possible in the future is a bad idea; who controls the past, controls the future and parties could delete parts of the past at their will
  • a less dystopian thought: future governments might simply cut the funding or restrict the archive to US content only because "why shouod they pay for other contries' history?"

A legislative approach that protects what the archive does would be a much more reasonable approach.

[โ€“] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago

Totally agree with you. These things need to be preserved in some way like physical media.

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