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Opal - Toitū Te Tiriti 🍉

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Please leave the internet archive alone, they are desperately trying to save our cultural knowledge from the digital maw. They are librarians. Go after profit obsessed publishers and big tech instead

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Te Ara Paerangi Com - Research Advocacy Capability's avatar Te Ara Paerangi Com - Research Advocacy Capability @arapaerangicom.bsky.social
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And, at the same time, give some $ to the Internet Archive so they can keep doing what they do.

archive.org/donate

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Violet Purple's avatar Violet Purple @pilotaparda.bsky.social
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How about both things can be true at the same time. The internet archive does extremely important work but is wrong on this specific subject

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Opal - Toitū Te Tiriti 🍉's avatar Opal - Toitū Te Tiriti 🍉 @opaltiger.bsky.social
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These a bigger issues than just the Internet Archive. Library systems all over the world now rely on mostly one product for digital lending, Overdrive. Recently Overdrive was sold to a so-called vulture fund. This puts all of our cultural history at great risk. 1/

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Opal - Toitū Te Tiriti 🍉's avatar Opal - Toitū Te Tiriti 🍉 @opaltiger.bsky.social
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25,000+ People Tell Publishers: Let Readers Read! Please sign the petition to allow libraries to protect all of our precious shared cultural history from rapacious mega-conglomerates.

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