@hacks4pancakes Hopefully it’ll all be housed outside of the country, where it’s safer.

@SecureInStyle I keep pleading with people outside the US to store things and not just count solely on the Internet Archive to do this for them. They're amazing, but a huge target right now.

Unfortunately, it doesn't look like many non-Americans understand how bad it has gotten in one month and that this is really happening, right now. I will buy all the hard drives I can myself when I move.

The digital book burning and minimization of trans/black/gay/women's history is very well underway here. And because the US hosts much of the internet architecture, it has been very effective. They are doing everything from blowing away digital backups, to wiping file repos, to painting over walls and murals, to forcing changes in school curriculum. Now. It is happening now.

@hacks4pancakes @SecureInStyle

Amazon recently announced you will no longer be allowed to download and offline store your purchases. What's your bet that after they do that, they announce that certain titles/categories of books are being removed?

@CharlieActual @hacks4pancakes @SecureInStyle This is the worst part of Digital Rights Management technology.

They did it before: Amazon removes copies of Orwell's 1984 from Kindles (users' devices) https://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/18/technology/companies/18amazon.html

Amazon Erases Orwell Books From Kindle Devices

An Amazon spokesman said that “1984” and “Animal Farm” were added to the Kindle store by a company that did not have rights to them, using a self-service function.

The New York Times
@janvenetor @CharlieActual @hacks4pancakes @SecureInStyle Big Brother wants you to create an account and give him your personal data before you can read this article.

@snaprails @CharlieActual @hacks4pancakes @SecureInStyle It's a fairly old article from 2009 demonstrating the terror of drm. Amazon wiped a certain book from user devices causing uproar. Here's an archived version:

https://web.archive.org/web/20250214021910/https://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/18/technology/companies/18amazon.html

Amazon Erases Orwell Books From Kindle Devices

An Amazon spokesman said that “1984” and “Animal Farm” were added to the Kindle store by a company that did not have rights to them, using a self-service function.

The New York Times