The Internet Archive is building a Canadian copy to protect itself from Trump

[yortsed snacilbuper]

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.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/the-internet-archive-is-building-a-canadian-copy-to-protect-itself-from-trump/ar-AAkV0Q9?ocid=spartanntp

[Gothmog]

1. Rachel Maddow covered this issue tonight

The fact that a back up is necessary is scary

[moondust]

2. Smart move.

Saw this on Rachel's show. There's no telling what a neofascist regime might do to try to erase Internet history.

[Wounded Bear]

3. Do they have a donations link? n t

[moondust]

4. Here.

https://archive.org/web/

Information about their move is under the "Blog" link.

[yortsed snacilbuper]

5. Thanks, I donated a few bucks.

Patron, thank you for donating!
Your support is vital to us
Thanks to donations like yours, we can continue to bring universal access to all knowledge to the world

[moondust]

6. I plan to donate as well. n/t

[Hekate]

7. Excellent