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End of the Road - Anandtech has closed down (www.anandtech.com)
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

If you're implying that an essential service should be managed by a private company instead of the government, I'd like you to take a look at the other services we have that are privatized... Like Internet providers and healthcare providers. People are dying because saving them is not profitable. And Comcast absolutely will throttle your connection for their own benefit.

If the Internet archive ever became for-profit, it would absolutely ruin the value of it to the public.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Look at Proton, Wikipedia, or the Internet Archive.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

All of which are heavily based on open source software, donations, and in the case of wikipedia, user generated and moderated content.

The solution is not centralization. It's decentralization. A decentralized internet archive could not be held accountable, or taken down, by any individual government. It will remain active and fault tolerant as long as enough users keep enough storage allocated to maintain replication and redundancy. One architected with zero knowledge encryption as the backbone (e.g. IPFS + I2P) could even operate within the jurisdiction of hostile governments.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Finally, someone with some sense.

Decentralization is one way, the most accessible by far. Proton is an example of another way. Yet another is to never scale.