Opinion: Phil Matras, founder and general director at AR.IO

Let’s stop pretending that the data just disappear. That’s not. It is removed, erased, buried and more often than not, made on purpose.

Every time the recent administration grabs power, the priorities are masculine. This should be expected, but it is unacceptable to accept the disappearance of public information. You can now see Especially in the United Statesand a pace that should be worried about anyone who cares about the truth.

From the health desktop to economic indicators to economic indicators, all swaths of data are taken in offline mode without a press release or explanation. He just left. This is not cleaning or protective; Historical revisionism occurs in real time.

Fragility of digital memory

The Internet was to be a great concealer – a huge public book of knowledge used for a greater good – but this ideal did not translate into reality. Instead, it switched to digital Mirage. Huge appearance, but in fact delicate.

When the sites disappear, the archives make up or the files are quietly pulled … There is no librarian who should be asked, there is no phone number, and usually there is no explanation why. The centralization of information has become its greatest weakness – a system designed for convenience, not lasting.

Let’s not protect this: it is risky. The authorities cannot be responsible if he has no access to his actions, and as such, justice, politics and reforms cannot be implemented if their supporting data has already been deleted.

The facts have no durability, but in the current system they may also come with the expiry date.

Consider World War II and the Holocaust – horror movies that developed in silence, and gaps in the evidence that allowed them to deny cracks in cracks. If the tools available today existed – tools for recording, storing and distribution without censorship – how much could it change?

Go to 2021, when independent messages, such as Apple Daily, were forced offline within a few hours in Hong Kong. The 26-year archive of journalism has become inaccessible almost overnight, because the servers were closed and the digital records were removed from public range. Hope was renovated After Cyber ​​activists began to create articles on censorship, lasting blockchain arweave.

Quick to this day in Spain and we see the same problem many years later. Internet service supply providers Blocking the entire part of the Internet Under the pressure of corporate sports interests – without a casting, without a public conversation, only censorship packed in legal.

Do not confuse silence from the room. Silence is a control.

Preservation of public data

Clearing is no longer a primitive act of destruction. It is a serene, legal, bureaucratic process that has been tightened for decades. Although the threat to public data behavior is real, as is the answers.

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Non -profit initiatives, such as the online archive, have quietly confirmed billions of websites over the years, effectively protecting against digital distribution. These types of efforts to archive open source work independently of the rule, because no single administration should never keep the keys to public record.

Data storage solutions based on blockchain also offer censorship resistant and resistant to manipulation of alternative storage solutions-in contrast to today’s dominant cloud providers that allow and even act on the removal and manipulation of data.

Each deleted article, every missing data set and each broken link is a chisel transferred to the foundation of public reality. Without data, the truth becomes subjective. When the truth is subjective, power says the last (and the loudest).

Loss of information is a loss of history and although there are solutions, they are not a sense of this article. This is not an advertisement – this is a warning.

Data protection as a rebellion

Maintaining public data is no longer a technical challenge – it is a civic obligation. Not everyone can create recipes or conduct protest movements, but everyone can save a copy. For every archive and every witness, there is a protection of truth, not only what is happening, but, most importantly, for what was.

George Orwell wrote: “It’s a beautiful thing, destruction of words.” It was fiction, but today it is a strategy, because the future is not based on dreams – it is based on discs.

When public memory is hosted in systems that can be edited, bought or deleted, this is not a story – this is a version of history by the last person who is power. This is a real danger. Not disinformation, but “no”: a void in which only an empty plaque remains – where there should be responsibility.

The choice of forward is plain: let the deletions continue or fight for durability and truth.

The record must survive the regime, and the facts must survive people who are afraid of them. Without this, the current generations will not only lose their history; They will also lose their future.

Opinion: Phil Matras, founder and general director at AR.IO.

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