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The Internet Archive Is Building a Canadian Copy To Protect Itself From Trump (theverge.com)
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. The Verge adds: 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."
It means serving patrons in a world in which government surveillance is not going away; indeed it looks like it will increase.
Why didn't they start this years ago when Obama extended and expanded the Patriot Act? Sounds like more leftist hypocrisy and hyperbole to me.
Sounds like more SOP conservative false equivalence to me: President Obama never threatend a crackdown on dissent, never threatened to jail his opponents, and never showed himself predisposed to seek revenge against critics with as many levers of power as are at his disposal.
Who did what now?
Flag burners should be deported to anti-US countries. Like Cuba, North Korea, Iran, PA, Syria, Libya, Pakistan, Bangladesh and so on. There are millions of people elsewhere in the world who'd love to come here - for the right reasons. Expel all America-hating Muricans, and give those people who want to come in J1 visas in their place.
He believes he can walk on water and chew gum at the same time.
You are welcome on my lawn.
He would have loved to be one, he just sucked at his job too much.
He's elected president. Not dictator.
Someone needs to remind him during his discourses.
Trump not only isn't a dictator, he isn't a warlock either. His powers of conjuring are limited to the powers of the presidency, not the realm of magic. The law is still the law, and both the White House counsel and Attorney General will inform him of that should he want something that isn't legal.
On the other hand, he does seem to have an almost magical power to cause butt hurt and insanity in some segments of society - mainly those that discovered they hate him after he decided to run as a Republican much as has happened to those that ran before.
much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot - George Orwell