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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: 5, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 30 2016, @04:14PM
You really are lock-step with the new order. Ikanreed is right, you've been shifted into an alternate reality by all the conspiracy stuff you read. I still am unsure whether Clinton would be better or worse, but you VLM are so tilted into the lies and promises of Trump that he just might be able to lead us over a cliff with you cheering him on. Your desire to punish liberals overrides your common sense and makes you downplay the most fascist authoritarian stuff Trump says!! At least the more honest Trump supporters say he is a huge tool, but they hope he'll shake things up without destroying the country.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Wednesday November 30 2016, @06:34PM
without destroying the country.
Its worth as a thought experiment to test things out by imagining the opposite. So ... lets say as a thought experiment everything he actually said (not propaganda reactions and clickbait headlines, but stuff he actually said) was simply rubberstamped by ... everyone. Press, congress, everyone.
How destroyed would the country be? Oh, not at all? Yeah I'm not so worried there.
Remember we're in a shared culture where for half a century every R candidate has been literally Hitler yet they always fail to light up the ovens. So there's no small amount of "boy who cried wolf" going on.
The maximal peak of "country destruction" is likely to be something like CNNs shareholders feel a little bad for a little while.
I'm pretty good with that.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 30 2016, @10:05PM
> How destroyed would the country be? Oh, not at all? Yeah I'm not so worried there.
If we spend the tens of billions of dollars to build that wall and the tens of billions to maintain it?
If we deport every single undocumented immigrant?
If we criminally prosecute women for having abortions?
If we create a registry of muslims?
If we murder the relatives of terrorists?
If we bring back a hell of a lot worse than waterboarding?
Encourage Korea and Japan to acquire nuclear weapons?
Seize the oil in Iraq?
Bring back stop and frisk?
The list of actual things he said just goes on and on.
No other major party candidate has suggested any of the things that Trump has said.
If you think he's the same as all the other republicans, then you are choosing to ignore reality.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 30 2016, @07:54PM
Your desire to punish liberals overrides your common sense
Actually, it is after seeing liberals in operation, and wanting to COMPLETELY disassociate with them.
Liberals have become pariahs by their own hand, and absolutely no one wants to be within 100 yards of them lest your flesh rot off.
If the left supports a free press, it's strictly for your HuffPo and fuck everyone else.
If the left supports freedom to protest, it's only for BLM and fuck everyone else
If the left supports journalistic integrity, it is to call everyone else brainwashed liars and the need to clamp down on "fake" news.
Sorry, these perceptions don't come from some alt-right orbital mind control laser, more the alt-right is a response to seeing the unabated hypocrisy of liberals in action. Any support from them is little more than (((I'm alright, Jack))).
While your concern about the nature of what could happen with the press is mildly amusing, the timing is a little suspicious to suddenly have a revelation about how important the press is, so kindly fuck right off; I can make my own determination about your sincerity level.