Battle for Libraries
www.battleforlibraries.com
Don’t let libraries die. As the future goes digital, major publishers are suing to cut off libraries’ defense of digital books from censorship. It’s time to fight back.

It looks like the internet archive is needed assistance, I just heard about this today and figured lemmy could help spread this message around

  • Rekorse@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    5 months ago

    Why can’t anyone spot a grift anymore? The IA is hugely profitable, and is very clearly crafting PR statements designed to increase donations. Has noone had their trust abused before? If they were trying to make change around this subject they wouldnt be so dishonest in their messaging.

    IA are not Robin Hood.

      • ulterno@lemmy.kde.socialEnglish
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        5 months ago

        Same question here. How can they be profitable if they are a registered non-profit?

        Is it somehow possible to pay employees exorbitant salaries, similar to Mozilla’s CEO?

        • delirious_owl@discuss.online
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          5 months ago

          Non profit doesn’t mean revenue can’t exceed expenses. It means that the org can’t be owned by investors, and the org can’t pay dividends.

          • ulterno@lemmy.kde.socialEnglish
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            5 months ago

            Interesting. And there really is nothing stopping someone in control from getting themselves a huge portion of it, while laying off staff?

            That seems like a huge flaw that someone with the required people skills (read, social engineering) can exploit.

            Anti Commercial-AI license