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[–]fuckCNN123 8 insightful - 2 fun8 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

If they succeed in taking down Internet Archive, the Library of Alexandria will become the second biggest library burned down in human history. Those holding the torches deserve fates that would probably be illegal for me to describe or fantasize about publicly.

[–]iraelmossadreddit 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

wikipedia says it wasn't burned down now and just gradually declined. who gets to decide who edits wiki pages? I wonder what the writers of history will say once most of the internets past is erased. they are already making plans of editing old websites to change history... "reddit never had a purge" what are you talking about? reddit is the beacon of free speach! no one is ever banned here! have you drank your milk today?

[–]fred_red_beans 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Similar to Aaron Swartz who was busted mirroring academic journal articles from JSTOR.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Swartz

These publishers are parasites that put a paywall between people and information. It is now relatively easy and cheap to make information available to everyone, which only serves our collective betterment and enrichment. Maintaining a paywall only enriches the publishers and is to our collective detriment, in my opinion.

[–]magnora7[S] 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

These publishers are parasites that put a paywall between people and information.

Not only that, but information they've already paid for because they're US taxpayers and it's public research. How the hell public research is hidden from the public who paid for it, and this is considered acceptable, is beyond me. Aaron was absolutely in the right for making publicly-funded research findings publicly available! Such a shame the DOJ decided to "make an example out of him", but I've heard rumors that it's because he also uncovered a lot of other data from MIT servers that some people really didn't want anyone to see, that went beyond research, and the DOJ was covering for MIT. But who knows.

[–]holy_goat 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

This will set some nice precedents :)

[–]hector_died_of_aids 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

i can practically hear the yids kvetching now

[–]holy_goat 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

lol you're so cool because you use antisemitic slurs!

[–]TheSeventhSense 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah it's so fucking retarded, every sub I go to just a bunch of fucking jewish slurs. Can't escape it and it's kind of annoying.

[–]hector_died_of_aids 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

stay triggered kike