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"This is really going to impact institutions that we take for granted," Internet Archive director of archiving and data services Jefferson Bailey told the Standard, "like our museums, our historical societies, our public libraries, our academic libraries — just a lot of people that keep information free and accessible and online."

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[-] ElysianBladeRunner@lemm.ee 220 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

They want to remove anything that keeps history accountable. This anti accountability regime don’t want their sins to be remembered. Imagine the linage of these assholes. How they will be looked down upon because their ancestors are are bigots and liars.

[-] Fingolfinz@lemmy.world 46 points 1 month ago

They don’t deserve lineages

[-] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 34 points 1 month ago

It's part of the fascist playbook

[-] Daggity@lemm.ee 21 points 1 month ago

They don’t want their lies to be proven false. Same reason trump regime keeps making private government information that was previously available to the public.

[-] Fedizen@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

"My lies can't be wrong if I erase all records of the truth"

[-] errer@lemmy.world 177 points 1 month ago

https://archive.org/donate

sucks that the things we need now require regular folks to be their patrons rather than collectively funding them, but here we are…

[-] Sprocketfree@sh.itjust.works 57 points 1 month ago

Your taxes can only go towards kidnappings! /s

[-] ogeist@lemmy.world 25 points 1 month ago

Just donated 50 ♥️

[-] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 22 points 1 month ago

❤️Donated. Cash is difficult right now, but I had some crusty old crypto sitting around just shrinking every month - they make it very easy to send some crypto their way so I was happy to dump it.

[-] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 21 points 1 month ago

Thanks errer

Disposable income Lemmings, this is the way

❤️ love you Internet Archive

[-] SerotoninSwells@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago

Thank you for the reminder. I donated 👍

[-] Kolonel_Kahlua@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago
[-] backgroundcow@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago

Thanks for giving the link and making this an easy 1-click thing. Just donated.

[-] scops@reddthat.com 162 points 1 month ago

Elon Musk will go to any length to scrub this image from the Internet:

[-] kn0wmad1c@programming.dev 138 points 1 month ago

The government funded them $345,000.

This is 100% spiteful and not an example of "wasteful government spending"

[-] rusticus@lemm.ee 19 points 1 month ago

We can easily crowdfund this. Especially the parts regarding Republican fuckery.

[-] LanguageIsCool@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

America, where the good stuff is funded on the side.

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[-] SerotoninSwells@lemmy.world 89 points 1 month ago

"Those who control the present, control the past and those who control the past control the future."

George Orwell, 1984

[-] fossilesque@mander.xyz 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

They destroy the past to sell you a future. It's coercion and extortionate.

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[-] PunkRockSportsFan@fanaticus.social 58 points 1 month ago

They are scared because the people don’t want things to go back to the way they were.

The people want them gone.

And it’s 100% justified.

They know they deserve to be handed over to the mob.

[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 40 points 1 month ago

Extremists always destroy history so they can write their own.

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[-] dan00@lemm.ee 40 points 1 month ago

Europe here: can we have it? 😅

[-] hedhoncho@lemm.ee 39 points 1 month ago

Ugh some asshole who’s only going to live a century depriving an endless future of historical knowledge. Musk needs to be detained and imprisoned.

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[-] courageousstep@lemm.ee 37 points 1 month ago

I just want to shake conservatives and ask “Why doesn’t your government want you to know things??”

[-] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 35 points 1 month ago

I wished we hadn't voted for him. Wait a minute...

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[-] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 33 points 1 month ago

Is there a folding@home style of effort I can contribute disk space and bandwidth to?

[-] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 9 points 1 month ago

The equivalent would be seeding a torrent backup.

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[-] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 30 points 1 month ago

Trying to burn digital books. Fascism in 2025.

[-] plantmoretrees@lemm.ee 30 points 1 month ago

He is literally a foreign terrorist. Deport his ass!

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[-] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 27 points 1 month ago

If we need to just go sit in the street outside the capitol until Trump is removed, I'm in.

[-] finder585@lemmy.world 27 points 1 month ago

Who else is waiting to see "DOGE Cuts Funding for Wikipedia"?

[-] Rhoeri@lemmy.world 26 points 1 month ago

Elon Musk is what you’d get if you gave the illusion of personality to a 4Chan troll.

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[-] AtariDump@lemmy.world 25 points 1 month ago

Double plus ungood

[-] obbeel@lemmy.eco.br 25 points 1 month ago

Both the Internet Archive and Wikipedia are really important. I guess the way is to make alternatives or datahoard in these difficult times.

[-] OminousOrange@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 month ago

Downloading and accessing Wikipedia offline through Kiwix is actually pretty easy.

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[-] yiyijiji@europe.pub 25 points 1 month ago

noo I found pages there that where offline for years before I read a mention of them 😥

[-] chalupapocalypse@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago

What's the size on this can I download a copy

[-] fossilesque@mander.xyz 28 points 1 month ago

Pedabytes, but you can help in other ways. Donating, uploading and the Archive Warrior. There may be waits to support via torrents too but I do not know.

http://warrior.archiveteam.org/

[-] ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago

Modern book burnings create a lot less smoke and noise.

[-] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 18 points 1 month ago

I am not now, nor have I ever been a Christian, but shit like this makes me go Jesus Fucking Christ.

Archive.org is a critical repository of knowledge and archiving the internet. Elon has cut nothing, but damaged a ton. It is kinda incredible how many damage he has done.

[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago

Isn't it weird how "doge" just goes after anything that actually benefits people?

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[-] AlecSadler@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 month ago

Well since I stopped paying federal taxes I might as well donate to the IA directly.

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[-] power@lemm.ee 14 points 1 month ago

they already faced cyber attacks now this? i mean, what can i say that hasn't already been said? keep on fighting for democracy!

[-] portnull@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 month ago

They used to burn books. Now they just defund information storage services.

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[-] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 13 points 1 month ago

Musk should really be removed from power.

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[-] TheGreenWizard@lemmy.zip 12 points 1 month ago

They also have a merch store: https://store.archive.org/

[-] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

Hopefully this galvanizes support for them, like anti-boycotting essentially

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