Inside Out Internet Archive Access

We trust libraries with our dead relatives' diaries because the librarian has a code of ethics. We do not trust Facebook with our live relatives' data because the corporation has a shareholder. The "Inside Out" model shifts trust from the platform (which wants to exploit the present) to the archive (which promises to protect the past). If the Internet Archive is the memory of the crowd , the Inside Out Archive is the memory of the individual . It is messy. It is legally terrifying. It contains embarrassing fanfiction, bitter divorce proceedings, corporate sabotage, and the first, awkward email you ever sent to the person you married.

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What if the Archive didn’t just store the public web, but actually became the private web? What if, instead of relying on robots to scrape what is visible, it asked everyday people to donate what is invisible ? We trust libraries with our dead relatives' diaries