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Wikipedia is under attack — and how it can survive (www.theverge.com)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/technology@beehaw.org
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[–] 65 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Wikipedia needs to leave the US at the least. Billionaires and AI pose a threat to all humans, and Wikipedia is no exception.

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  • [–] 38 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    And the Internet Archive too

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    However I wonder how this would work. As far as I know Internet Archive have a "Library" status and rights in the US (and only in the US), which grants them rights to archive stuff and have it as download that would be otherwise not legal. That does not mean everything provided there is legal. So leaving the US could actually hurt Internet Archive or the users in the US maybe.

    I would be glad if anyone with more insight into this topic could tell me one or two things about it.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    It definitely cannot go to the EU. I don't believe any EU country permits private online libraries.

    Plus the entire Wayback Machine would be considered systematic copyright infringement since the Internet Archive doesn't obtain permission prior to archival. And if you don't have permission then it is automatic copyright infeingement.

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