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by Self-Perfection4 hours ago |
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upvoteby Gigachad3 hours ago|
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What if pedophiles were sent to jail instead of elected.

Technical tricks like IPFS can’t prevent even 1% of the damage caused by giving criminals this much power over society.

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upvoteby titzer3 hours ago|
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The media in the US is utterly feckless and broken.
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upvoteby tstrimple2 hours ago|
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It is owned by capital and doing what they bought it to do. Working as designed.
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upvoteby godelski4 hours ago|
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Honestly, if anything the library of congress should be operating a system similar to the way back machine. Isn't preserving historical information one of its objectives? And what libraries do in general?

But I'm very in favor of maintaining "the record", as it were, for government websites. If we can have changelogs on bills then we should elsewhere. It informs the citizens of the actions of our government. What has changed and "who done it". That can go both ways and I hope it would incentivize those trying to actually do good and not just treated as a liability.

Hell, if the NSA can just gobble up all the Internet traffic and store it on servers in Utah then the least we can do is make public records accessible. The archival work has already been done and we've already paid for it

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upvoteby shrinks994 hours ago|
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The Library of Congress runs Webrecorder's Python Wayback for their web archive replay and has an extensive collection of over 35,000 web archives each comprising multiple pages: https://blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2025/01/beta-release-of-libr...
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upvoteby godelski41 minutes ago|
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That's awesome. Thanks for letting me know. It's a great start
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upvoteby tokai28 minutes ago|
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Its called legal or mandatory deposit. In some countries their national library is required to crawl the open internet within their language, besides collecting regular published materials. In the US laws on legal deposit has not been extended to non printed materials.
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upvoteby frogperson1 hours ago|
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Your argument assumes the Trump admin wants to actually help the citizens it is supposed to represent. They do not care about most citizens, their words and actions have proven this over and over again.

This admin absolutely will never take any steps towards transparency, education, sharing, or even simple kindness. Any hope of implementing something like this will have to come later.

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