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Today the one (and only) public digital library in the world is under attack. Internet Archive / archive.org is down. (slrpnk.net)

submitted 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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https://mastodon.archive.org/@internetarchive

People are rightfully angry. I hope this helps the world relize that we need more than one public digital library in the world. When the EU (for example) does not have a digital public library and relies on archive.org, it heightens everyone’s vulnerability to a single point of failure.

For me, I cannot access roughtly half the world’s websites right now because Cloudflare blocks me -- which makes me almost wholly reliant on archive.org and to some extent google caches via 12ft.io.

(update)
Looks like there is a project underway -- a Digital Knowledge Act being proposed:

https://communia-association.org/2024/10/09/video-recording-why-europe-needs-a-digital-knowledge-act/

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

Now that is clever. This, and federated so you can view it all from a single app.