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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 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.