Libraries
activistPnk
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Today the one (and only) public digital library in the world is under attack. Internet Archive / archive.org is down.
You can follow their Mastodon account here:
https://mastodon.archive.org/@internetarchive
People are rightfully angry. I hope this helps the world relize that we need more than one public digital library in the world. When the EU (for example) does not have a digital public library and relies on archive.org, it heightens everyone’s vulnerability to a single point of failure.
For me, I cannot access roughtly half the world’s websites right now because Cloudflare blocks me -- which makes me almost wholly reliant on archive.org and to some extent google caches via 12ft.io.
(update)
Looks like there is a project underway -- a Digital Knowledge Act being proposed:
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