Reposted from c/politics since it violated their rule about needing to have a link:

Now that the fascists have taken over, what books, academic studies, and pieces of knowledge should take priority in personal/private archival? I’m thinking about what happened in Nazi Germany, especially with the burning of the Institute for Sexual Science(Institut für Sexualwissenschaft) and what was lost completely in the burnings.

Some of us should consider saving stuff digitally or physically. Redundancies will help preserve stuff.

  • SturgiesYrFase
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    As @hollyberries pointed out, archive’s servers are on American soil, if there’s a federal ban on improper(“fake”) knowledge, their assets could easily be seized. No laws would have to change from today for them to do this, they’d just have to think up a somewhat reasonable excuse…

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      Probably they’d use obscenity laws. Or they might bring lawsuit after lawsuit, dmca after dmca, until it drains them of their funds.

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        He doesn’t have to. He can issue an executive order and within hours, a military regimen takes their data center.

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        The possibilities are endless.

        I gotta get offline now. This morning hasn’t been too great for my mental health.

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        7 hours ago

        Or copyright.

        Whether honest or not, copyright claims are a very powerful tool to take stuff down now, and fight about restoring it later.

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        I’m hopeful that the archivists were looking to transfer their servers elsewhere (if they could while in the middle of that lawsuit).

        If not it will likely be gone. :/