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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: 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.