If we lose the Internet Archive, we're screwed

Re:If we lose the Internet Archive, we're screwed – The Stat... by Sakos on Thursday April 06, 2023 @05:16PM (#35474590)

> I see a lot of comments in this thread with what about-isms or "I don't care, we wouldn't miss anything", but these people are short-sighted. And to be honest the hacker news community is frequently the community I loathe to engage in these topics with. Because they are always looking forward with very little respect for the past as well as very little respect for domains outside of technology.

There is a severe lack of appreciation for culture or even an understanding of what constitutes our culture, especially here on HN (which is why I hate discussing these topics here). It's not just a handful books that happen to turn into literature in 100 years. Our culture consists of every medium we interact with today. Allowing corporations to monopolize nearly all of it in perpetuity is quite simply immoral and severely damaging to our continued cultural development.

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Re:If we lose the Internet Archive, we're screwed – The Stat... by getwiththeprog on Friday April 07, 2023 @07:32AM (#35480521)

I find this a very diverse space with many points of view, many which I do not agree with, and also a place I find people who are rational, cultured and thoughtful. It's not a full discussion without disagreements.

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