Re:Internet Archive forced to remove 500k books after publis...
by johnnyanmac on Saturday June 22, 2024 @02:14AM
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1. Not a fan of privation fallacy
2. Your view on books and by extension, long term education is well, short term. A classic issue used to defund libraries. You don't give proper resources and knowledge to get the homeless today off thr street. It's to ensure much less of the next generation isn't also on the street.
Re:Internet Archive forced to remove 500k books after publis...
by throwthrowuknow on Saturday June 22, 2024 @07:54AM
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There were a vast number of technical books on the internet archive, that was mostly what I used it for. They’re not easily accessible elsewhere, maybe pirated from random torrent sites but they’re not discoverable or easily searched.
Memoirs, political books, fiction - no need for the taxpayer to subsidize, people can buy themselves.
Actually useful technical material: already available for free on the internet.
Poor people are not dying on the streets because they can't read the autobiography of the latest president. Tax dollars going to that instead of climate change or cancer research or something similar is incredibly immoral.