Yes, so very hostile.

Great, proving private non-profits that aren't to be trusted and it should be a regulated government entity.

Sure itd be nice but why would we wait to have private businesses do it when they never will? We can live in reality or your fantasy world where businesses in a capitalist market do things not for profit.

As they threaten to shutter their doors or sell out every year?

Also shows you know nothing about the library of Congress or other such government groups.

Why do you believe a centralized, privately run, non-profit is any less at risk of the same short comings you just listed? At least with a government program it would take an act of law to drop instead of just a private entity pulling the plugs

Which tax money do you believe funded this?

Except my recommendation was not everyone own their own website. It was governments creating and preserving things as a social works. Why do you want the responsibility to fall on individuals instead of the bodies that represent everyone?

Again, if it's not law and backed by the world's governments it could vanish from support at any moment. But I agree those such efforts are worth while in the current here and now of our reality.

How do employers paying the employees get money with which to pay them in your model?

Yah, I've seen that - I'm happy if it happens but not holding my breath.

It depends. Is the item in question being translated for fun or for academic, scientific, or historical value? If it's for more than just fun then it can't be "crowd source" or helped with AI (though that one may shift as time goes on) because it needs pedigree, credibility, and someone to claim it is accurate to the source. You set 100 people loose on translating old language and you will get 150 different interpretations. We need consensus to preserve, and that takes organization, and that takes manpower, oversight, and regulation.

It's "free" in that those things are free for hosting but only up until the donations dry up. A funding line supported by law would ensure it. Also hosting it is the last step in costs. You still have the work retrieving and preserving the original, translating it (no small feat), then finally digitizing and formating that translation for readability. All that is labor people have to do.

It's a lot of work and awesome people do it out of the goodness of their heart and personal passion but we should, as a society, be funding and ensuring it for the future.

I understand your intent but Preserving, Translating, digitizing, and then publishing that digital content onto a web server all takes work and people generally like to be paid for work.

So instead of making it illegal (which would just result in bad/low quality translations slowly trickled as passion projects or worse none because no one is paying for the work to be done) we should be getting the World's governments to fund them as social works of preservation for the good of society and publish them on free sources. And yes this means tax money would go to it.