We pay half a billion in tax dollars for the National Archives, and nearly a billion to the Library of Congress to preserve these records. Others are managed as part of Presidential Libraries.
Thousands of employees, dozens of facilities, billions of dollars.
Meanwhile archive.org doesn't have air conditioning and preserves physical material within the blast radius of an oil refinery. They let vagrants sleep on their steps yet seem surprised when they set the utility pole outsides on fire.
I didn't say it didn't need to be done. I said the whole process needs to be rethought with professional supervision. Setting up more volunteer K8 clusters so that more copies of the Google Home Page can be captured with the wrong user agent isn't going to save democracy.
