Pretty much the title sums it up. There’s a lot to be concerned about, and one thing I find personally disconcerting is how US educational systems might be impacted.

Do we need to make backups of, like, everything educational and scientific? And where are all the places and forms that we can host these materials?

Edit: to everyone saying it shouldn’t be an issue because Trump/US doesn’t control information in the rest of the world, keep in mind that is little comfort to those of us here if access to that information becomes restricted as well. We should be seeking to hedge all bets.

  • @[email protected]
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    147 hours ago

    You don’t need to make any backups, the information is already shared worldwide. Should the Trump Administration choose to censor information, there are plenty of us outside the US who will be more than happy to provide it to you anyways.

    At most you’ll need a VPN that doesn’t log IPs.

    • @[email protected]
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      507 hours ago

      I dont think this is a wise stance. The internet actually forgets a lot, and unless things are explicitly and intentionally archived, stuff gets lost all the time.

      • @ch00f
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        96 hours ago

        Yeah. Can’t tell you the number of times recently I’ve tried to pull up a video from the past and couldn’t find it. Either removed or just impossible to search for.

        I’ve got a YouTube playlist that gets downloaded to my server every week just in case

      • @[email protected]
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        -16 hours ago

        I agree, but I wasn’t addressing the act of archiving itself, just the access that one may or may not have to it.

    • @[email protected]
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      137 hours ago

      as far as i know the internet archive does not have backups, copies, etc outside of the US

      • @[email protected]
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        56 hours ago

        Right now that is unfortunately unclear. They did create The Information Archive of Canada in 2016 as a direct response to Trump’s previous Presidency, but they’ve provided no updates since.

    • @[email protected]
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      77 hours ago

      as far as i know the internet archive does not have backups, copies, etc outside of the US