The Internet Archive - a perfect partner

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Brewster Kahle & The Internet Archive have long been Ideal candidates to partner with MaidSafe, and both have wanted this to happen, and attempts to get that going have been made, but faltered as early versions of “Safe Network” petered out.

During the past year corporations have been attacking the archive with lawsuits aimed at destroying it. This week it has been hacked and DDoS’ed which some suspect are sponsored attacks from the same quarter. :man_shrugging:

The point is a lot of knowledgeable people know about, use and care about The Internet Archive. Those people are across the industry, of all ages and in many online arenas. Many have influence and all would be ideal to have on-side or at least aware of the project and it’s ability to protect public data.

This is timely and urgent because, without help The Internet Archive may not exist much longer, and massive troves of important data could be lost forever.

If there is one partner that Autonomi should break their necks to get uploading, this for me is it.

The coverage this would receive would be enormous and ongoing - not a flash in the pan. The reputation of the project would be massively enhanced among many who would otherwise turn away from it for various reasons, and best of all it would be an enormous ‘good’ for humanity, to preserve public access to that data forever. What a great thing to feature on the Autonomi landing page:

“Autonomi - securing The Internet Archive for humanity” (etc :smiley:).

@Gill_McLaughlin and @Bux I hope this is at least something you think worthwhile and maybe already pursuing.

I know David wants this and that the connection to Brewster goes back a long way, but I want to highlight it because it could easily be overlooked given the happenings this year.

P.S. welcome Gill.

Written from self exile :rofl:

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Thank you for sharing this @happybeing. Looking at Brewster Kale and The Internet Archive, like you say presents a fantastic partner opportunity. As am relatively new here, let me connect with @Bux on this and find out a little more on the work done so far and provide update.

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99 Petabytes??? :exploding_head: How much time & MAID will it take to get this on the Network?

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Currently:

The Internet Archive is under attack, with a breach revealing info for 31 million accounts

Temporarily Offline

Internet Archive services are temporarily offline.

Please check our official accounts, including Twitter/X, Bluesky or Mastodon for the latest information.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

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Re-visiting this because the Musk takeover is rapidly censoring information across government and will not stop there. (For those not aware, he’s inserting his people, mostly very young male engineers across government and taking down websites and purging documents of all kinds on a political basis.)

It should IMO be a priority of this project to push back against censorship and to prioritise data that is important and at risk, not least the Internet Archive which is the most closely aligned and successful anti data loss endeavour out there.

PS we have an off-topic thread for discussion if Musk so let’s not do that here. I mention him purely for context. So by all means comment on why you think saving IA data is not a priority but not the divisive topic of Musk, Trump etc.

cc @Gill_McLaughlin

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It is certainly the best partner for Autonomi at the moment, but the question is whether the stability of the network is currently able to reach a level where resources can be used in a seamless way? However, I think that it would be possible to systematically transfer data from the IA to Autonomi’s network in order to secure resources and at the same time to build up a certain network stability (optimal filling of nodes, fluidity of transfer) precisely on the basis of a large amount of IA data.

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What is your source, it sounds like a conspiracy

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One mans conspirator is another mans whistleblower.

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Before the internet there was about 1 to 5 percent strike rate on conspiracies and after the advent of social media there is like 0.01 to 0.0001% strike rate. Maybe the more popular ones are like 0.1 to 0.01 percent strike rate.

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FYI Brewster is in Europe and shocked to see the extent of privacy violations which happens everywhere, but which he is only seeing because in EU/UK, websites have to tell you about:

On the Autonomi dweb users will be in control of this wherever they are.

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But not at this venue in Paris or is he?

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On 10 and 11 February 2025, France will host the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Action Summit, gathering at the Grand Palais, Heads of State and Government, leaders of international organizations, CEOs of small and large companies, representatives of academia, non-governmental organizations, artists and members of civil society.

With this illustration in their webpage, “Main themes - Trust in AI”:

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www.elysee.fr/en/sommet-pour-l-action-sur-l-ia

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I have 2o7 blocked at the IP level and url level. They have been a scourge for more than a decade. Not only location data but computer details send in the URL accessing 2o7. screen size as well LOL

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