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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.

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[–] simple@lemm.ee 116 points 1 week ago (40 children)

If you'd like to support archival in general, consider donating to https://archive.org/ . They regularly archive books and media that can be potentially banned. It doesn't hurt to download parts of the archive on your machine if you want to be extra sure, but keep in mind the internet archive is massive with petabytes of data.

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 34 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Shit, now I'm doubly worried about Archive staying online.

[–] SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml 38 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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...

[–] Gigasser@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago (4 children)

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

[–] SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 week ago

The possibilities are endless.

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

[–] HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago

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. :/

[–] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week 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.

[–] AndrewZabar@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

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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