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from the you-can-never-have-too-many-offsite-backups-eh dept.
The Internet Archive plans to create a backup of its data in Canada in response to the election of Donald Trump as President of the United States:
The Internet Archive, a nonprofit that saves copies of old web pages, is creating a backup of its database in Canada, in response to the election of Donald Trump. "On November 9th in America, we woke up to a new administration promising radical change," the organization wrote in a blogpost explaining the move. "It was a firm reminder that institutions like ours, built for the long-term, need to design for change."
[...] The move will cost millions, according to the Internet Archive, which is soliciting donations. In their post, the Internet Archive justified its decision to backup its data in Canada, claiming that Trump could threaten an open internet. "For us, it means keeping our cultural materials safe, private and perpetually accessible. It means preparing for a Web that may face greater restrictions."
(Score: 0, Flamebait) by VLM on Wednesday November 30 2016, @03:49PM
A fourth bit of fun for foreigners trying to figure this crazy stuff out is social media and social signalling has taken over the lefties and to some extent discussion in general in American politics. Trump could be censored and ignored, but they won't because they get viewers. So he can control the news cycle and get press precisely because he knows saying the prez should get to throw libelous journalists into the tower of london at his whim will create a national coverage of conversation about the topic in general. If he went really beta and asked them pretty please to not be so naughty and how far left would be have to compromise his values to get them to not call him a racist for a week or two, then they'd ignore him and nobody would ever hear about him nor would there be any national discussion of the topic.
If Trump hadn't said "toss them in the dungeon" then we'd be getting a megadose of the usual narrative, the headlong acceleration into normalizing pedo that the left seems to be aiming for as the next social change to ram down our throats. In that way he might actually be doing them some good in giving them something less unappealing to talk about. I'd certainly rather have propaganda writers in dungeons than pedos normalized and working as schoolteachers for my kids, for example, and that being the next big thing, Trump is delaying or eliminating social change which is good and admirable.
Trump knows how to manipulate the media into discussing whatever topic he wants, and because nationwide trust in the media has dropped to end stage Soviet Union trust in propaganda, nobody cares if some propaganda reader on CNN cries her eyes out about it on TV, in fact many people tired of being lied to really enjoy that kind of thing. F those liars, Trump makes them cry, guess I like Trump!
(Score: 2, Funny) by kurenai.tsubasa on Wednesday November 30 2016, @04:12PM
Wait, the left is trying to legalize pedophilia? Does this mean that MikeeUSA is a lizard person too?!?
I found this interesting in particular. Feminists like to destroy men who are elementary school teachers with insinuations about pedophilia. However, research shows that we actually do need more men teaching elementary school. Now you're saying that the left is trying to get actual pedophiles to teach elementary school. This is suspiciously similar to how the right adopted feminism's position on gender transition while simultaneously under the delusion that feminism sees woman suited bathroom rapists like me as legitimate women. Very strange things happening!
Cutting through the hyperbole, I think I see what you're saying, and the larger point is a fairly good observation about the zeitgeist.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Wednesday November 30 2016, @06:53PM
There you go I was channeling a little Trump there, trying to control the social media story cycle and get engagement by going off on a mostly true yet somewhat ridiculous tangent that would be super exciting out of context while bringing attention to my main longer format point. Meanwhile my competitor trying to push the meme story about 3d generative art for sale isn't getting the social media love (nothing personal, was actually a pretty cool story, but for the sake of example it gets stepped on, pity because its a good story). So its win win for me. It was a self referential comment in attempting however poorly to implement the activity itself not just talk about it in an abstract sense.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Wednesday November 30 2016, @07:27PM
the headlong acceleration into normalizing pedo that the left seems to be aiming for
Is there some corollary to Goodwin's law where we can just stop the thread when someone accuses someone else of being a pedophile because they disagree about politics?
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday November 30 2016, @09:52PM
Exactly. Hey, ikanreed and VLM, can you stop trying to out-clever each other, Stephen Colbert style, and argue points you actually believe? This exchange between you descended quickly into a muddle.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Wednesday November 30 2016, @10:15PM
Sorry I wasn't intentionally implying that about anyone here but that was a minor fad in the clickbait arena not long ago. Still going on to some extent. I do unfortunately believe that's the next stop for the normalization train based on some minimal evidence. If it isn't, then what is? Poly I guess. Beastiality? There's a whole industry of people needing something to push to keep the money flowing...
As far as personal comments about one another, ikanreed is a strong debating partner, good I like that. Wrong about things, but strong in spirit, good good. Challenging, almost. That is invigorating. Good. However I can now see that turning SN into an time western saloon brawl, however fun it might be, is rightly disconcerting for folks who just came here to talk about reprograming the player piano and the new arduino count carding shield so sry bout the disruption, you all.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Thursday December 01 2016, @11:30AM
I personally don't mind vigorous debate about anything between intelligent people. It's a live-action enactment of "Truth on Trial: Ethics in America [wikipedia.org]." (I reviled Scalia, but watching him match wits with the others in the room was like watching a cobra fight a mongoose.) The Stephen Colbert-style of inversion inside inversion, though, becomes too damn hard to follow (as in, "Wait, so now you're parodying his parody of your parody...?"). Just go toe-to-toe, straight up, and say what you mean. Then it can be more of a conversation for the community than an exchange between two people that feels, well, self-indulgent.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 30 2016, @10:28PM
You do know that most child molesters aren't pedophiles but opportunistic molesters, right? Pedophiles need help and therapy and hell maybe even libido-killing medications, child molesters need prison. Pedophilia is thoughtcrime, child molestation is actual crime. See the difference? One is thought, one is action. Stop conflating the two, and stop advocating for the punishment of thoughtcrime, you won't like where that goes.
(Score: 2) by Anal Pumpernickel on Thursday December 01 2016, @09:32AM
Pedophiles need help and therapy and hell maybe even libido-killing medications
Someone doesn't need help merely because of their sexual attractions. If they're thinking about actually raping anyone or they themselves want help, then sure.