Digital Archivists: Protecting Public Data from Erasure

Hypothetically: -Government leader says they're nuking data -Mad rush to back up data through other means -Government leader declares they've 'transferred the cost of maintaining data out of government, thus making for a smaller, more efficient, government'

I hate everything about this.

There is inherent inefficiency in government accountability efforts. I'm ok with that.

In general it makes sense to shift this part to business, if data is valuable, there will be market and services. Probably problem is how fast they nuked without grace period.

im okay with data being hosted for free or cheap by the government and not being price gouged for access to public data

I think many people are very not Ok how government handles data: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43237352

Are these same people proposing private industry would do a better job? https://privacybee.com/blog/these-are-the-largest-data-broke...

Government is also regularly being hacked

when was the last time we didn't hear about private companies getting hacked lmao they're terrible!!

Kind of like switching to supporting Russia so your allies think you're no longer a reliable partner and start beefing up their own militaries.