Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle said that while the nonprofit organization has always functioned as a library, this new designation makes it easier to work with the other federal depository libraries. That, he said, is a service to everyone.
“ I think there is a great deal of excitement to have an organization such as the Internet Archive, which has physical collections of materials, but is really known mostly for being accessible as part of the internet,” Kahle said. “And helping integrate these materials into things like Wikipedia, so that the whole internet ecosystem gets stronger as digital learners get closer access into the government materials.”
I strongly recommend that a whole bunch of people actually look up what the FDLP is before commenting. Trump doesn’t “have control” over the Internet Archive.
This means Trump can finally de-fund them
No, it doesn’t. It’s still an independent entity. The right is already slinging around enough misinformation, we don’t need to add any of our own.
I’m inclined to consider it a honeypot tbh. Its too damn sus that the US government suddenly likes something like this.
I can’t see anything good coming from this
This doesn’t change anything about the ownership, governance, or control of the Internet Archive. It literally just means that all official government documents go to them for archiving. This is cool and neat and raises the profile of the Internet Archive, but other than that it doesn’t really mean anything. Trump has exactly as much control over it now as he did before: none.
Well, good. I hope it stays that way and I’ll be cautiously optimistic it’s actually a good thing. Thank you for the information.
Does this mean now they can be ordered to take down content?
No. They remain independent.
Edit: well, ok, they can, but only in the way that they previously could: through a court order that would affect any library of any kind.
Seems like a terrible idea given what our federal government has become.
The Federal government gets no control over the Internet Archive through this designation.
Uh huh. Sure thing.
I’m not saying Trump wouldn’t try to take such a thing, but this doesn’t give him any more ability to do so than he had before. Obviously he’s willing to be a fascist, so he doesn’t need any change in an organization’s designation to do something undemocratic toward them. He has exactly as much control as he had before. This doesn’t change anything.
Guys fast! Save everything that annoys Trump, fast!
Trump has exactly as much control over it now as he did before: none. It literally just means that all official government documents go to them for archiving. This is cool and neat and raises the profile of the Internet Archive, but other than that it doesn’t really mean anything. Trump can of course do some undemocratic shenanigans to them, but no more or less than he could before this designation.
Yes, but undemocratic shenanigans arent rare
Again, it doesn’t matter for this news. The ease of undemocratic shenanigans toward the Internet Archive has not changed.
Ah ok
If it wasn’t several PB (yes, petabytes) of data I’d want a backup.
DEI and trans people removed, with the latter soon redirecting to a christian psychologist’s website about “cluster B abuse” in 3…
The Federal government has no direct or indirect control over the libraries in the FDLP.
