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Yep, that’s a good practice as well. But make sure to clean up the watermarks that contain identifying info! (I recommend PDF-XChange for that, it’s really powerful.) Sci-hub PDFs are full of them and I wonder if the uploaders ever got exposed that way and had trouble, aside from Aaron Swartz.

they’re going to shut down the internet soon

They would never do that. If they did, then how would Trump keep spreading his bullshit?

It’s been backed up a zillion times already. Scanning a rare old book and uploading it to Internet Archive and/or Libgen/Z-lib, seeding Anna’s Archive torrents, stuff of that sort is more valuable than an another copy of Wikipedia on your hard drive where nobody will ever touch it.

I understand that most of the rhetoric towards white people that I believe could be interpreted as “racist” are made by the direct victims of white colonialism/racism

On Lemmy? Nah.