Wayback Machine
A primary tactic of fascism is to scrub and revise history. What we don’t know, we have to rediscover. Librarians and archivists are the quiet heroes of every era of oppression, hiding and saving and securing records we would otherwise lose. The internet is particularly easy to edit, but scrubbing it is a whole lot harder. The Internet Archive, home of the Wayback Machine, has been quietly tracking the web for decades. Help fund their effort.
Why we do it:
Under the Trump administration it’s more important than ever to have documentation. From government web sites changing in real time during Congressional testimony to files recalled in violation of court order, to CBS pulling a 60-minutes segment on our crimes against detainees mere hours before it was due to air, things appear briefly or disappear forever every day.
The Internet Archive (AKA Wayback Machine) documents it all, but that takes staff, servers, lawyers…money. Make a donation to the Wayback Machine today.
