“This is really going to impact institutions that we take for granted,” Internet Archive director of archiving and data services Jefferson Bailey told the Standard, “like our museums, our historical societies, our public libraries, our academic libraries — just a lot of people that keep information free and accessible and online.”

  • kn0wmad1c
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    1889 days ago

    The government funded them $345,000.

    This is 100% spiteful and not an example of “wasteful government spending”

        • @prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          It sucks because the goal of all of this is privatization. They literally want regular people to pick up the “slack” (that they themselves artificially created) and fund things that are supposed to be public services.

          So when they cut shit like this, our options are basically to: let it die, or do the exact thing that they want. Either way, it’s a win for them. It fucking sucks.

    • @CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world
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      48 days ago

      Spitefulness is the point. Trying to make progressives cry. “Owning the libs”.

      When donvict talked about being “your” retribution, he was throwing red meat to complete dumbasses because this is the kind of shit he is planning for them. Performative bullshit that will do nothing for the base, and certainly nothing for normal Americans.