Hello everybody,

I was reading the information provided here for quite a while and have been very impressed by the excellent work. Considering the efforts that were necessary to collect all the evidence provided here, one point makes me very nervous, so I decided to sign up at voat and write my concerns down.

Let's get to the point: The use of archive sites like archive.is is convenient and necessary, but risky.

While looking through all the submissions, I noticed that basically all archiving takes place on two or three sites.

This may be one of our weakest points.

Please don''t get me wrong, as a immediate measure its absolutely fine to use those sites - but think about the (state) actors involved into this. If they decide that the content of those archives is too damaging, they may be taken down at any time. And then we may have close to no evidence any more.

I want to propose that we have to look into decentralized, uncensorable data storage techniques.

One thing that comes into my mind is the use of P2P-networks, especially known as torrents. This way, everybody who wants to participate in this investigation would be able to automatically have a current copy of all the relevant information, after a single person added it to the torrent repository (don't know if "repository" is the right term in P2P-context, I am talking about some kind of collection of all the different files/saved web pages).

Currently, I cannot provide any more than this post to raise awareness about the issue, but I will look further into this if there is significant interest. Still, my resources are limited, so i want to motivate everybody who has the knowledge about this subject to look into options how we can decentralize the vast amounts of evidence.

Keep digging!