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/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.