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Internet Archive to Duplicate Data in Canada in Response to Trump's Election

posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday November 30 2016, @01:54PM   
from the you-can-never-have-too-many-offsite-backups-eh dept.

takyon writes:

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."

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• Re:Flag burning side thread (Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday November 30 2016, @09:16PM

  by Phoenix666 (552) on Wednesday November 30 2016, @09:16PM (#435119) Journal

  The SCOTUS was wrong. Not the first time. Burning the flag is not free speech, it is an act of rebellion and possibly treason. One change in your thinking and it makes perfect sense.
  ...
  Most of the alt-right have accepted the notion of white-identity politics as the only answer to the self evident reality that every other group is practicing identity politics. Lots of disparagement of "magic dirt" theory and the "proposition nation" ideas. I accept that criticism but note that it really isn't fair to say the "proposition nation" doesn't and can't work since for a century now we haven't even been trying. The Proposition Nation as a basis for America requires we make a real effort to assimilate people to the Proposition and cast out those who refuse to accept it. I.e. it is NOT possible to be a patriotic Anti-American. So before you post a fiery reply inside [flame] tags, consider the options, chaos and anarchy followed by something worse, the fast approaching White Nationalism as a response to the identity politics of the Left that will also lead to chaos and fire, or a return to the American Proposition Nation of a hundred years ago.

  Burning or doing anything at all to the flag or any other symbol is the highest form of free speech, and deserves the most intense protection. Saying, "babies are cute" or somesuch is not why we have freedom of speech in the United States of America. Burning the flag or telling the President of the United States (past, current, or future) to go fuck himself to his face, are.

  As far as your "proposition nation" goes, you're deluded. America is a work in progress and always has been. The "proposition" has always been a point of contention as to what exactly that is. I personally don't care for many of the zigs in the path that proposition has taken over time, but that's why I have the freedom of speech, and ultimately the strength of arms, to contest the position of that proposition with vigor.

  If it were otherwise, jmorris, then I'd be perfectly right and empowered to tell the rest of you to fuck off and get out of my country, since my people were here long before there was said country.

  But I'm not.

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  Washington DC delenda est.

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