Funny how it’s happening along with Youtube quietly deleting Israeli Warcrime videos from its platform.
They’re making it harder for Israel to erase evidence of its crimes.
That’s my guess for the impetus (I can’t read the article because archive.is blocks my VPN lol)
We are rapidly moving towards a period where the few safe parts of the internet left that arent under strict corporate control will be targetted. Everyone should be preparing for that. Keep PDFs of useful info on your machines. I have a whole library of pdfs on mine with things from communist theory to first aid manuals. And switching to Linux so that your computer cant just be remotely monitored at all times is important too. I worry a lot of people won’t be prepared for when the digital surveillance they’ve been doing for years turns into actual mass arrests against anyone they see as an ideological threat.
It honestly takes very minimal effort to maintain a digital library for yourself. Swipe up an old office computer from a business auction for less than $50, install linux and start running that as a server from home. Store your media and books on it, set up remote access so you can stream it to yourself from any device. You can functionally replace streaming services for your media needs this way. It has the added benefit of being slightly more material than any cloud services you could access.
If you’re new to this stuff, you can also should pick up a <$100 laptop and slap a user-friendly linux distro on it, and try daily driving linux as well as maintaining your server. Even the oldest, crustiest laptop runs Linux fine. You’ll pick up so many great tech skills doing this and you can still keep a windows daily driver for work or whatever.
No need to make it a server if you dont want to. Just a folder on your computer works fine too.
Absolutely, I just know lots of people are acclimated to cloud services and don’t see building their own library as worthwhile vs just getting it online. You can totally have best of both worlds.
I haven’t even finished reading Marx or Lenin ffs
That’s ok. You don’t have to read them now. Just find PDFs and download them. I have a folder labelled “Digital Library” on my laptop that has a few dozen ones in it. I havent ready all of them cover to cover or anything. I have maps of my local area, theory, textbooks on mathematics, first aid manuals, herbalism guides, foreign language textbooks, and a few works of strategic or historical usefulness. Like The Prince, The Art of War, etc.
How worrying is this for people not living in the US
Depends on whether the site is hosted in a jurisdiction the US has power over or can lean on. They could also seize the domain which would break existing links.
I belive they said it is hosted in Canada… sooooooooooooooooo
Yeah, if that’s the case then it’s game over for the archive.
who would have thought that the spooks of 1984 would come from capitalism? big brother was an imperialist all along!
1984 is funny because it depicts fascism to a T even though it was intended to critique Stalin and the USSR.
Perhaps the oldest example of criticizing socialism by describing capitalism.
Every accusation from a Yankee imperialist is a confession.
Orwell was British but pretty much, yeah.
Wait, archive.is is considered infamous? First I’ve heard of that descriptor
Archivists are the most twisted bunch around. Never look a librarian straight in the eye!
