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Sep 20Liked by Kathleen McCook

And we are living in an age when people are ready to do away with libraries because:"Everything in on the internet."

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Very short-sighted and lack of a sense of history. Electricity is barely 100 years old. I print out a lot.

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Sep 20Liked by Kathleen McCook

I've found this disturbing for as long as internet pages have been disappearing. The Internet Archive's "Way Back Machine" is a godsend, but it's limited in many ways.

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A friend sent me a very good citation about the need to have a better plan.

Bak, Greg, and Marianne Rostgaard, eds. 2023. The Nordic Model of Digital Archiving. London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003325406.

See https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.4324/9781003325406/nordic-model-digital-archiving-greg-bak-marianne-rostgaard.

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Digital preservation is such a multi-faceted problem. URLs don't exist in a vacuum. From the link you posted:

"However, as digital systems have increased in sophistication and interactivity, the National Archives’ format migration strategy has been less and less effective at preserving user interactivity and the richness of the metadata of the original records."

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We may not be able to locate dead links (easily, as individual users), but I wonder if an ai using webcrawlers will be able to find it all. If that's the case it would access to knowledge we don't have.

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Yes that's possible--sometimes items turn up at the Wayback machine at the Internet Archive but not everything. Also, links to servers where the item no longer is hosted go 404. Also Internet Archive is a non-profit so future depends on support.

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I hope the archive beats its legal issues, it's just too useful for the internet to lose.

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Thank you !!

An IMPORTANT interview, including – WHY CIA protects Hunter Biden (two identical links)

Mike Benz - Inside the Censorship Industrial Complex | SRS #132 (on YouTube)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o98Y1cEja-U

Shawn Ryan interview with @MikeBenzCyber

https://x.com/ShawnRyan762/status/1836820804715302935

• 00:00 - Introduction

• 13:11 - 'The Blob'

• 19:07 - 2014 Censorship & the Ukraine connection

• 29:00 - Influencing international censorship policy

• 32:35 - The power of ‘The Blob’

• 48:06 - Elon/X free speech proxy war

• 55:43 - DHS censorship threats

• 1:30:17 - Headway in Congress

• 1:42:20 - How do we gain power over tech companies?

• 1:51:24 - Tim Walz China connection

• 1:56:38 - Burisma & why we’re in Ukraine

• 2:29:14 - Free speech on the internet

• 2:37:21 - World War 3

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