• chunes@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    You can easily download wikipedia to a USB drive. Do it yourself pal

    • 9point6@lemmy.world
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      4 hours ago

      Already got a copy on my NAS, I update it every year or two when I remember to.

      But you’ve missed the point, my personal access to a Wikipedia text snapshot is not equivalent to the free access of information to everyone. The information just existing somewhere isn’t enough.

      And anyway a person can’t practically keep their own copy of the Internet Archive. It takes up something like a quarter of an exabyte

      • iamthetot@piefed.ca
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        50 minutes ago

        It existing somewhere is better than nothing, though. Internet archive on the other hand, that one is a lot harder.