In the wake of Donald Trump becoming the US president-elect, Canada's immigration website happened to crash due to an influx of users.
Well, it turns out that US citizens aren't the only ones looking to make the jump north, with the Internet Archive — a digital library non-profit that preserves mountains of webpages for historical record — announcing it will build a backup archive in Canada due to the election.
"On November 9th in America, we woke up to a new administration promising radical change," writes founder Brewster Kahle.
"It was a firm reminder that institutions like ours, built for the long-term, need to design for change. For us, it means keeping our cultural materials safe, private and perpetually accessible.
"It means preparing for a web that may face greater restrictions. It means serving patrons in a world in which government surveillance is not going away; indeed it looks like it will increase."
From today, it will be collecting donations for the Internet Archive of Canada, intended to create a copy of its collection outside the United States.
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Of course, with around 50 days still to go until Trump's inauguration, the future of privacy in the United States remains a mystery.
As The Verge points out, though, the president-elect has leaned towards greater law enforcement surveillance powers and legal censorship, including "closing that internet up in some ways" to fight terrorism.
As a related, evergreen note, Trump has also controversially been found tweeting about flag burners being put in jail or losing their citizenship, so perhaps the Internet Archive's decision to back things up in Canada seems like a sensible step.
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