wayathr0w's comments

>Flock coaches police on denying records requests, inserts itself into the legal process, and sells a 'transparency portal' its own staff calls useless.

Reads like a GitHub press release, except for this:

>The report shows that the platform processed more than 2,000 takedown notices in 2024, which affected 31,151 repositories.

>Of all notices received, just 41 were contested or retracted, and a total of 103 repositories remained online as a result.

Do any of these visualizations meaningfully incorporate the fact that many (if not most) books lack ISBNs?

What actually happened at 2020's protests & riots in the u.s., in the words of those who were there:

https://paper.wf/downas/partisan-accounts-of-the-george-floy...

Why delegitimizing those who don't abide by the rules of “peaceful protest” amounts to defense of the status quo:

https://north-shore.info/2024/10/04/not-liking-someone-doesn...

Can't speak for OP's link, but as a contrast No Trace Project's resources contain lots of advice from people who actually routinely face state repression, with in-depth analysis of specific cases. The scope is international (though focused on the North Atlantic region) rather than english- & u.s.-exclusive. There are plenty of references to Tor+Tails.

https://www.notrace.how/

http://i4pd4zpyhrojnyx5l3d2siauy4almteocqow4bp2lqxyocrfy6pry...

Some of the crowd here is already aware of the issues with these recommendations, so let's take things up a level.

https://www.notrace.how/ / http://i4pd4zpyhrojnyx5l3d2siauy4almteocqow4bp2lqxyocrfy6pry...

https://www.anarsec.guide/

Google is already a "defense" (military) contractor. They sell stuff directly to governments, well aware how it'll be used.

It's surprising to me that they ever made such a pledge, considering...you know.

http://www.notechforapartheid.com/

>The services under Aangat Lahat is my way of offering some sort of digital mutual aid that provides free online communications to people who want it. *Please know that this server is explicitly against capitalism, states, cops, fascists, racists, antisemitism, sexists, harassment, homophobia, transphobia, ableists, and zionists.*

Fuck national security & fuck "the west". These are not things we should seek to protect or defend. (And yes, fuck copyright too.)

Amazing what kidnapping a tech billionaire can get you.

>relatively expedient reconstruction

If self-destruction is a necessary premise here, is that really a good thing?

>We need to build an alternative access to knowledge that bypasses the copyright/ownership of knowledge paradigm.

That's what shadow libraries are doing, as are many other older & less prominent models of information distribution. These projects should be proliferated & promoted to challenge the dominant propaganda that people can only do things the U.S. government says they can.

Depends. This case was specifically about a library of books whose uploads were all done or coordinated by IA's employees. That is something different than the various things, including but not at all limited to books, unaffiliated people upload. It's certainly possible "random people's uploads" could come under increasing scrutiny & legal attack as publishing companies are likely feeling emboldened by the victory, but I don't think that's what this specific ruling was about.

This is nonsense. A great many of Internet Archive's in-house scanned books weren't previously available on shadow libraries; many of the Internet Archive scans have meaningful differences from the digital copies available elsewhere; & much of the shadow libraries' collections actually came to them from the Internet Archive. In the case of Anna's Archive specifically, they conducted a massive scrape of IA's library.

I think the legalist approach IA is taking was always doomed, but the enormous resources at their disposal allowed them to do a lot of collecting that other efforts have & will continue to benefit enormously from.

Scott wasn't an anarchist either - hence "Two Cheers" instead of three. He worked for the CIA in the 1960s, self-identified as a "crude Marxist" at best, didn't believe it was possible or necessary to eliminate the state - which he described as a rare but potential force for good - and was a frequent donor to the Democrats.

http://barcelona.indymedia.org/newswire/display/536292

Right, freedom and independence for the property owners. Whether that property is land, people, or "intellectual" is just as irrelevant to the Dreamer as if that property was obtained by deception or violence.

>In a series of 3 posts, you will be asked to detail which of Biden's accomplishments have touched you personally. Participants will be briefed on his most noteworthy accomplishments and asked to select which one's they'd like to speak on or attest to.

>while in most countries you can't properly publish a book without an ISBN (ie, have it sold in bookshops)

I'm quite skeptical of this, given the amount of books I've personally seen published in recent decades without ISBNs, along with the limited & haphazard attempts to regulate what it means to 'publish' something or even to be a 'proper' bookseller. But if you have some experience I don't with this, I'm interested in hearing about it.

If you liked the comment-length analysis OCLC & want more, there's a whole essay on the subject. [1]

>But one of the ironies of the scraping is that it's not going to be immediately helpful to the libraries who are unable to afford to participate in Worldcat. This is because the scrape didn't (and quite possibly never could have) capture the data in MARC format, which is what most library catalog software uses. While MARC records could be cross-walked from the JSON, they will undoubtedly omit some data elements found in the original MARC.

While it would have been ideal to get all the data in MARC & as many other formats as possible, I wonder how true this is worldwide - many libraries don't use MARC or have a digital catalog at all. Maybe there are some ways the data could be processed that make it easier to integrate into such places, but of course local needs/desires will vary widely.

[1] https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/11883899.pdf - it was also published in this book: https://archive.org/details/radicalcatalogin0000unse