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Written by Odin Halvorson on 2025-02-02 at 23:14

• "When the Patriot Act was passed, libraries got requests for patrons' borrowing history. We were prohibited from disclosing those requests.

• We deleted and shredded those records and stopped tracking reading history for that reason."

[#]Libraries #Librarians #Rwsist #Politics #Anarchist

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Written by Odin Halvorson on 2025-02-02 at 23:14

• "We figured, what's the fun in just telling them there's nothing? What the feds always forget is that librarians LOVE weaponizing bureaucracy for a good cause.

• We developed a compliance policy just for the Patriot Act."

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Written by Odin Halvorson on 2025-02-02 at 23:15

"We added a Patriot Act compliance officer to our org chart. This person was a real employee."

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Written by Odin Halvorson on 2025-02-02 at 23:15

"Well, WAS. The office of Patriot Act compliance would be assigned to whichever employee had just left our library. And gosh, it's just such a mess around here, you know."

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Written by Odin Halvorson on 2025-02-02 at 23:15

Unfortunately nobody can remember the password to the system that has those records. So we have to get IT involved, which means running through more detailed security resets to make sure other systems aren't compromised. It should take a couple weeks.

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Written by Odin Halvorson on 2025-02-02 at 23:15

"The library where I worked at the time did not successfully fulfill a single Patriot Act request.

Not that this is relevant to the current situation. I assure you this is a random memory that popped into my head with zero prompting. "

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Written by vruz on 2025-02-03 at 06:20

@indubitablyodin This is all cool and dandy but you've never met Nazis willing to burn down the library.

These stories were cool to deal with something that resembled a government.

That world is gone, the US as a democratic state with a stable system of governance is dead.

The US is being managed by Nazis now.

If the library doesn't comply, the Nazis will burn it down, this is the new reality.

Wake up.

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Written by Elaine Coates on 2025-02-03 at 07:31

@vruz @indubitablyodin But they still won’t have anybody’s browsing history.

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Toot

Written by vruz on 2025-02-03 at 08:08

@elaine1helen @indubitablyodin

Oh great. That's so bright, isn't it.

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Written by undead enby of the apocalypse on 2025-02-03 at 11:40

@vruz @indubitablyodin @elaine1helen it prevents them from using that to go after people, which is really important. I don’t get why you’re so cynical about this (assuming the comment I replied to was sarcasm)

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Written by Notavi on 2025-02-03 at 20:46

@vruz @elaine1helen @indubitablyodin

https://catvalente.substack.com/p/keep-calm-and-fing-stop-this-s

It was about the election, but it's still relevant now.

Stop dumping your hopelessness on the people who are working to fix this.

Will what they're doing here be enough? No, but no one thing will solve this and incremental progress is a win. Others will do things on other fronts.

There will be no hero, because no one fixes this alone - it'll be the sum total of a LOT of little things that makes the difference.

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Written by Notavi on 2025-02-03 at 21:18

@vruz @elaine1helen @indubitablyodin Also worth reading - https://www.joanwestenberg.com/we-dont-need-more-cynics-we-need-more-builders/

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