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.

  • @[email protected]
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    With the internet as it is it’s extremely unlikely we’ll see an information purge like nazi Germany. We might see censorship and destruction of art but information will survive internationally.

    • JaggedRobotPubes
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      We should probably assume most things are hosted in the states and have ron desantis coming for them.

    • Ech
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      Depends on who’s in charge. 50%+ of the internet seems to be hosted by amazon and musk rules his little fiefdom. The call to be proactive isn’t unreasonable.

    • @[email protected]
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      We might see censorship and destruction of art but information will survive internationally.

      As well as imprisoning of people spreading information and making art that the regime doesn’t like.

    • SeedyOne
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      Your optimism about that is inspiring but one bad solar flare, some sea cables or a pissed off dictator/billionaire can shrink the world real quick. SneakerNETs anyone?

    • FenrirIII
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      They put porn behind a government ID in most places. Expect it everywhere

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        Canada will do the same once Pierre takes over. I’m already having to stockpile porn because of the fact he has a 99% chance to win and he’s going to implement digital ID bullshit (even though Pierre claimed to be against digital IDs before If I remember correctly) which will end up being a privacy nightmare. I hope to fuck it’s not going to be linked to social insurance numbers because the only way to get a new social insurance number is if there is actively fraud happening with your social insurance number, and then you have to fight to prove that you’re you. We are so fucked.

        • FenrirIII
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          More cash for corporations that lobby politicians to take awsy my rights. Fuck VPNs

    • @TheKMAP
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      218 days ago

      Are you aware of any non American efforts to archive the American internet?