By removing “extremist content,” platforms are purging human rights evidence

Re:By removing “extremist content,” platforms are purging hu... by reaperducer on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @06:10PM (#21339597)

Or even something more distributed. Like each public library has a storage cube and each cube has an overlapping portion of history. They checksum each other peer-to-peer to detect anyone trying to change history.

There are 110,000 public libraries in the United States. Plus thousands more private libraries. Seems like enough for U.S. history, at least.

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Re:By removing “extremist content,” platforms are purging hu... by bilbo0s on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @06:19PM (#21339672)

Shouldn't be the public libraries though. Public libraries will not save certain videos. Especially if the local police or the guys in the blue windbreakers with three yellow letters on them show up.

Maybe that's a problem that everyone has? But it would be best if there was some offshore, FBI proof, kind of way to do this archiving.

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Re:By removing “extremist content,” platforms are purging hu... by reaperducer on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @06:51PM (#21339900)

Especially if the local police or the guys in the blue windbreakers with three yellow letters on them show up.

I wouldn't be so sure about that. After 9/11, the libraries were the first to stand up to the government's desperate search for information. The feds wanted everyone's lending history, and ended up backing off when the libraries put up a fight.

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Re:By removing “extremist content,” platforms are purging hu... by gowld on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @09:12PM (#21340721)

This is what BitTorrent and IPFS is for.

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Re:By removing “extremist content,” platforms are purging hu... by dredmorbius on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @09:58PM (#21340975)

Those are ultimately transport and distribution systems.

At some point, you need curators and archivists.

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