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If I controlled a paper, I’d force a git control system with publicly viewable edits made after publication.
Imagine the goodwill and trust that would instill in the public toward your paper.
Edit: I’ve thought the same thing about proposed legislation for a long time.
I think many have also been wondering about version control of legislation/law documents for some time as well. But I never understand why it’s not realized yet.
Because the people who would implement that system would be the same people it would hold to account.
Probably because companies don't want to be held accountable.
a git control system
And be able to actually be held responsible for your actions? You're crazy!
Le-git-slation for the win!
I'm genuinely impressed by this being upvoted here. Big tech and powerful corporate/government interests are destroying our societies. This information needs to be checked and tracked.
I assumed the piracy sub would be a safe space for this sort of thing
Piracy is data preservation after all. How many books, series, TV shows, and video games would be inaccessible if not for pirated copies?
Definitely can't rely on companies to archive their own stuff effectively.
Well how do you do fellow Jacob Geller fan.
Maybe it is out there, but the Internet Archive should be wildly redundant on the internet, it's just too valuable to lose.
This article sent my down a Brewster Kahle rabbit hole, so...
Who remembers when Alexa was simply a web traffic rating site? I forgot that Amazon named it's assistant after that property.
holy shit
How have I never connected those dots?
Alexa used to be a great marketing tool before Amazon got their grubby meathooks on it.
This sounds like a great excuse to launch an archive with a bunch of proxies that automatically captures new New York Times articles and tracks changes over an exponential amount of time. Preferably with a built-in algorithm that diffs the articles.
Do you support war, state propaganda and policing of speech or do you support things like freedom of information, speech and the internet archive? You can't do both, fake progressives.
When I tried to open this article about the importance of allowing bots to archive content, I got this "Robot Challenge Screen":
I'm all for taking molotovs and whatever else we can manage to scrounge up to bring the heat to any company who opposes the Internet Archive. I'm willing to perform terroristic acts to show these people that we care about our digital freedom.
this article is 7 years old lol
It came out yesterday. You are probably looking at the date on the screenshot of an article that it starts with rather than the date of this article at the top.
ohhhhhhhhh lmao i thought it was from 2016, didn't saw the real date behind the title