Fight for the FuturePublishing execs who think data on readers is their new product?
Get ready, because it’s about to get awkward.
Tomorrow, the @InternetArchive is appealing in court for the right to own and preserve digital books, including half a million books that this suit forced them to remove from their library.
But it’s not book banners they’re up against, it’s Big Publishing. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/06/internet-archive-forced-to-remove-500000-books-after-publishers-court-win/
Today, to thank the Internet Archive for standing up for the rights of all libraries and all readers to own censorship- and spyware- free digital books, ❤️Fight and the authors of Flaming Hydra are taking to the streets on both coasts.
In San Diego, at the American Library Association conference, we’re calling out big publishing for their anti-library and anti-human rights suit that seeks to lock digital books into the hands of Big Tech forever. #ALAAC24
(While we hope publishing workers have a lovely conference, we wish all the execs from publishing and Big Tech that feeling like everyone is judging you.)
In Manhattan, we’re flooding the streets with the message that we need global, privacy-preserving digital reading options more than ever. But since big publishers have forbidden us all from owning digital books, nobody can build those options today.
Amid unprecedented book bans and censorship, and a rollback of basic human rights that means many people have to worry about being punished for what they read, that’s just wrong.
What’s happening is very real. Tomorrow, the Internet Archive will go into a New York court and fight their hearts out for the right to own digital books.
A right we all should have.
Caspar BelowIf you want to stand in solidarity with the Internet Archive, go to https://BattleForLibraries.com for multiple petitions you can sign. If you’re in the US, you can also contact your legislators. We have over 30,000+ petition signatures already. How many more can you help us get this week?
