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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 Anal Pumpernickel on Wednesday November 30 2016, @10:38PM
Burning the flag is not free speech, it is an act of rebellion and possibly treason.
So is your position that the first amendment only protects written word and actual speech? If not, then how can you possibly justify this? You can perform an action in order to convey a message, and that is rightly recognized as being protected by the first amendment. Just because you don't like someone's speech doesn't mean it's treason or not protected by the first amendment. At any rate, read the first amendment.
Burning a flag does not meet the Constitution's definition of treason, once again putting you at odds with the highest law of the land. Furthermore, you seem to automatically assume that someone burning a US flag indicates that they don't like the US; that is not necessarily the case at all. You could burn a US flag to celebrate the fact that you have the freedom to do things such as burn the US flag, for instance. It's also possible that someone is protesting the US government because it doesn't respect the freedoms and principles this country is supposed to stand for. You have arbitrarily decided that burning a US flag can mean one thing and one thing only. When you fail to take into account someone's intent, you look just like the SJWs you often complain about.
Stripping people of their citizenship also isn't constitutional.
Many reading the above are outraged. Allow me to explain the why.
I don't know about outraged, but I vehemently disagree because it's a blatant violation of the Constitution.