@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?

@nomad2035 @CharlieActual @hacks4pancakes @SecureInStyle I'm not saying this is technically impossible, especially considering the Android safety core thing as the step one to detect, but this is probably a bit of a reach.

More likely to see them stop supporting generic storage access or something - downloading PDFs or epubs to begin with being discouraged or disabled in favor of some walled garden approach for some made up technical reason & a subscription model atop that. Like they'll say their pubs are digitally signed but then put in a flag to not allow importing unsigned pubs. Their garden keeps the keys & access for the masses is reduced, but without the extra bad taste of just deleting data from devices.

@catatonicprime @nomad2035 @hacks4pancakes @SecureInStyle

Possible, I just think back to when they removed 1984 (of all things) from peoples devices over some publishing dispute. So I know factually this is possible and has happened before. What with the current ongoing of scrubbing all references to ... all kind of things from government websites and the tech industries scramble to appease the administration, better safe than sorry and should definitely be on peoples radar.