The Internet Archive is a wonderful website - they go out and make copies of all the websites that they can find and archive them for future generations to view. Now they are spinning off a copy of themselves. From The Verge:
The Internet Archive is building a Canadian copy to protect itself from Trump
The Internet Archive, a digital library nonprofit that preserves billions of webpages for the historical record, is building a backup archive in Canada after the election of Donald Trump. Today, it began collecting donations for the Internet Archive of Canada, intended to create a copy of the archive outside the United States.
“On November 9th in America, we woke up to a new administration promising radical change,” writes founder Brewster Kahle. “It was a firm reminder that institutions like ours, built for the long-term, need to design for change. For us, it means keeping our cultural materials safe, private and perpetually accessible. It means preparing for a web that may face greater restrictions. It means serving patrons in a world in which government surveillance is not going away; indeed it looks like it will increase.”
The San Francisco-based Internet Archive is comprised of several different preservation efforts, spanning nearly every medium. As of 2012, the entire archive held 10 petabytes of data; for reference, Facebook’s entire photo and video collection totaled 100 petabytes around the same time. Alongside films and books, the archive holds thousands of early software programs and video games that can be emulated on modern systems. It’s particularly known for the Wayback Machine, which continuously crawls the web to archive pages over the course of decades.
Spinning off a mirror is a great thing but I find it odd that they would use Trump's election as a cause. I would be much more concerned with revisionist history and tampering with data under a Clinton administration then under a Trump administration. Donald Trump may be a crude businessman but you do not get to where he is by being unethical - one whiff of taint and you are done. Clinton reeks of taint.
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