Linked: “Internet Archive’s Trump Archive launches today”

via Archive.org:

A work in progress, the growing collection now includes more than 520 hours of Trump video. The earliest excerpt dates from December 2009, and the collection continues through the present. It includes more than 500 video statements fact checked by FactCheck.org, PolitiFact, and The Washington Post’s Fact Checker covering such controversial topics as immigration, Trump’s tax returns, Hillary Clinton’s emails, and health care.

This is not anti-Trump, this is a huge win for free speech and the archival of what our next President has said or done in his campaign. I’d have liked this sort of thing done for our current president as well. Videos on the Internet are deleted often. Archiving them forever is smart. There are tapes in a news room somewhere that have these but saving the YouTube video in a central location with tags & meta-data is an incredibly challenging task.

It will protect us against our leaders. When they say something, we hold them to it. That’s the power of this.

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