“We survived, but it wiped out the library,” Internet Archive’s founder says.
The Internet Archive is a good project.
However, like most tech obsessives, they still don’t understand, or perhaps care about, consent.
Yeah, the concent of a megacorporation who owns the rights to a bunch of books shouldn’t matter when freedom of information is on the line.
That isn’t what we are talking about, apologies for not being clear with that.
We are talking about them not taking down things like tweets etc without what they consider a ‘good reason’.
These corporations absolutely are immortal thieves. But it is important to respect consent as well. The solution isn’t to ignore consent, but to change the system to make the thieves obsolete or irrelevant. To find better ways to reward those who culturally enrich society outside of capitalist cycles of false scarcity.
