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		MomsAVoxell 3 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Internet Archive's big battle with music publisher... Why isn't the Internet Archive a function of the Library of Congress, anyone know? Seems to me that IA should be very well funded by us all.

SXX 3 months ago [–]

Because we don't want it be shutdown because some political figure dislike that it archived something they don't like?

MomsAVoxell 3 months ago | [–]

But isn’t the purpose of the Library of Congress to avoid that scenario?

TimorousBestie 3 months ago | | [–]

If that’s the purpose of the Library of Congress, they failed.

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