Imagine a newspaper publisher announcing it will no longer allow libraries to keep copies of its paper. That’s effectively what’s begun happening online in the last few months. The Internet Archive—the world’s largest digital library—has preserved newspapers since it went online in the mid-1990s....
Like I said, active support in hearts and minds – being ready and equipped to defend it if it comes under threat. Relatively, North America is the most supportive financially compared to the rest of the world. To the extent that’s related to a bunch of factors, I’m not qualified to say (and I’ll say I feel a fuck of a lot more qualified than most).
When I say that people take Wikipedia for granted, you can hopefully tell that I’m talking about it in the same way people often used to take basic executive branch norms for granted before Trump’s terms. Not everyone did; people who were especially politically engaged probably didn’t. Most people would’ve told you they supported them; an overwhelming majority of people who weren’t far-right nutjobs would’ve. But they often treated them as “too big to fail”, and they were blindsided as Trump destroyed them.