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posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday November 30 2016, @01:54PM   Printer-friendly
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."


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  • (Score: 1) by kurenai.tsubasa on Thursday December 01 2016, @04:39AM

    by kurenai.tsubasa (5227) on Thursday December 01 2016, @04:39AM (#435270) Journal

    Yeah granted that's disconcerting, but the worst he did in Indiana is make it so that wedding cake bakers can refuse certain people's money.

    (Why they would do so is beyond me, like literally in the sense I don't get their connection to this Reichsführer Jesus in the sky. While I haven't found Mr. Right yet, so maybe I speak from naïveté, I can't imagine finding somebody to bake a wedding cake could possibly be anywhere near as difficult as finding a doctor. And there are plenty of rituals that don't involve cake that would be acceptable. Maybe the cake is a lie!)

    I can think he's a vile person (ignorance can be easily cured, but people like him are not ignorant) without being too worried what he'd even be able to get away with. I'm expecting a lot of meh for the next four years. Discrimination laws just create angst to nod at AC.