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Fearful Americans Stockpiling Facts Before Federal Government Comes To Take Them Away (theonion.com)

submitted 4 days ago by ZeroCool@lemmy.ca to c/theonion@midwest.social

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[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

is more valuable than an another copy of Wikipedia on your hard drive where nobody will ever touch it.

You're assuming they don't manage to make ISP's shut down suspected torrent users and nuke IA from orbit.

If it's on your HD, they have to come and take it from you directly for you to lose it.

Still contribute to IA and AA, absolutely, but don't except them always to be there.

Unless things change direction, all that shit is going to have to way further underground and we might end up sneakernetting shit if they decide high-speed internet is to be completely censored.

[–] Smith6612@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

I know the IA has mentioned in the past they have projects in place to try to back up their archive. I hope their backup plans are true, and if they are attacked by the US, they can relocate to a new safe haven and come back online quickly. The IA has been such a wonderful resource for research and accountability.

I suppose the major bit of hope I have about the IA is with their partnership with the Library of Congress.

As for ISPs shutting down Torrent users, I suspect they would do that strictly based on bandwidth usage alone. I know my local Cable company will send nastygrams if they see you using a disproportionate amount of bandwidth compared to other customers. I've seen them also shut down Business Internet accounts for doing the exact same thing!