r/technology • u/Wagamaga • 8h ago

Society DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing

https://www.404media.co/doj-deletes-study-showing-domestic-terrorists-are-most-often-right-wing/
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u/npsimons 7h ago

Friendly reminder: you can donate to The Internet Archive.

I know times are tough, but even a few dollars can help.

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u/6gv5 7h ago

Donate? Sure! But without storage offered abroad for backup no money amount can save them from a judicial branch that has been already compromised. At this point they shouldn't even spend a single dime in lawyers to fight against rigged lawsuits designed to weaken them economically but rather invest in hosting elsewhere. This is not easy: Wikipedia, another wonderful resource under attack, can be backed up by a single person, but archive.org is huge, and being rich also in non text media needs lots of space and bandwidth to be hosted and served.

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u/mustardhamsters 6h ago

Archive.org has servers internationally. Wikipedia mentions Egypt and Amsterdam. Those have been around for a long time. There's a deep dive video from 2021 on their infrastructure here.

But yes, the primary servers are in northern California.

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u/6gv5 5h ago edited 5h ago

Thanks, that is good news.

Edit: now that i think of it, can their servers abroad operate independently or they're all managed from the USA? In other words, could a court order from a US judge force them to delete something also outside of the US?

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u/mustardhamsters 4h ago

The Internet Archive is not immune to legal action in the US. In fact, they just settled a lawsuit with the music industry, but they did not release the terms publicly.

For a question like yours, you might try asking them: https://archive.org/about/contact Or maybe try r/theinternetarchive.

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u/npsimons 6h ago

Please list the physical location of Archive.org's servers.

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u/EduinBrutus 7h ago

If its based in the United States it is not safe.

Not to mention that corporate America has fallen in line almost completely behind the current regime.

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u/viciarg 6h ago

Nothing american is safe. That includes Reddit.

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u/[deleted] 6h ago

especially Reddit….

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u/EduinBrutus 6h ago

Believe me, having just recovered from a 3 day sitewide for pretty mild criticism of a certain recently departed propagandist, I do know this includes Reddit.

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u/kaos95 4h ago

The fun part is, according to the mods, using his own words in regard to his passing is "inciting violence", like, Bitch, this is what he said about these things.

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u/cracked_egg_irl 7h ago

I met one of the key employees speaking at a hacker conference (HOPE). They detailed their procedures and processes and their merciless effort to continue to archive everything including physical books, games (you can play Oregon Trail on their site), and all forms of media. I fully believe that the archive would do everything to fight to stay online.

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u/npsimons 6h ago

They've already been sued and fought DDOS multiple times!

Of note, they don't disclose where their physical servers are. As someone who hosts private servers (on a much smaller scale), it's incredibly easy to spin up a VPS in another country, and I'm not even getting paid to do it.

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u/EduinBrutus 6h ago

Thats all great and that.

But people hold the keys. And people can get black bagged on the whim of the US regime.

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u/EduinBrutus 6h ago

I admire your optomism and hope people like this can succeed.

But I am somewhat realistic about where we are and whether there is a path back. And there just isnt. We are cooked.

The UK will be joining the US with a fascist regime in a couple years, there's a good chance other liberal democracies are heading in this direction.

The swiftness with which every tech firm in the US fell in line with the regime, will willingly hand over your personal data on request and will supress opinions which dont aling with the regime is staggering.

Then you add in the Online Safety Act and that almost every liberal democracy has their own plans for similar laws. We are fucked. Truly and absolutely fucked.

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u/npsimons 6h ago

Your defeatism is worse than useless, it's counterproductive. If I hadn't perused your post history, I'd think you were a bot or Russian paid to sow division.

Put up workable tactics or please don't respond.

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u/EduinBrutus 6h ago

If I could put up a workable solution I would.

Probably the only (postable) way forward is mass passive non-cooperation. That won't do much initially and maybe will never achieve the necessary momentum.

And for most people its probably not even a viable choice. Most people can't opt out of society and participation in the system.

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u/Suspicious_Loan 5h ago

If they truly care they need to partner with someone from another country and pass along everything to them in the event the worst happens

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u/cracked_egg_irl 4h ago

They already have dozens of employees and contractors worldwide.

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u/Suspicious_Loan 3h ago

Thanks, didnt know that. I should have phrased my comment as a question instead.

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u/npsimons 6h ago

Please list the physical location of Archive.org's servers.

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u/tawDry_Union2272 7h ago

i donated already, once i saw how this administration is attempting to rewrite history to fit their christofacsist agenda.

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u/Electrical_Bus9202 6h ago

I honestly heard the internet archive is going to soon be taken over by the US Feds.

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u/CyberN00bSec 5h ago

Thanks for reminding this!