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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 J053 on Thursday December 01 2016, @12:07AM
(Score: 1) by tftp on Thursday December 01 2016, @04:14AM
I still have never seen any verified accusation that any of Hillary Clinton's emails, that were stored on her "private" server, were ever leaked or revealed to anyone not authorized to see them.
Let's then all together ask the intelligence services of all leading countries to confess that they have been there and they have taken all the messages and left no traces. They should have reported all this to the public years ago! Isn't it in their charter?
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Thursday December 01 2016, @11:14AM
That's because you're only considering the relative position of those jobs in the org chart. Hillary's power derived from something more than that. Obama beat her in the primaries, but only just. She had the DNC locked up behind her, and most of the media then. All the big donors maxed out their contributions to her then. If you'll recall, when Obama asked her to become Sect. of State it took the Clintons months and months to decide, with lots of negotiation with Obama's camp. Obama probably thought he was uniting a divided party behind him after a rancorous primary process. The Clintons were clearly figuring out how to position her for another run for the Whitehouse, later.
That's why Hillary had the juice to be above the law, and Petraeus didn't. Be that as it may, the precedent that the Sect. of State can ignore the law has been set. Now it doesn't matter whose butt is in the chair. The Secretary is immune from prosecution.
Washington DC delenda est.