🚫 CensorshipActivists rally to save Internet Archive as lawsuit threatens site

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[–]iraelmossadreddit 13 insightful - 1 fun13 insightful - 0 fun14 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

it won't be long before you won't be able to tell what has and hasn't been edited by the government online.

[–]magnora7Saidit Admin 7 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Oof I hope some of the backups that the article mentioned are able to be successful. That information should really be distributed through a series of torrents or something

[–]whistlepig 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Pretty messed up they did that without checking with their lawyers first. I wouldn't expect them to have been that naive.

[–]yvaN_ehT_nioJ 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Pretty worrying. I got to meet one of the IA people at a big archival conference a few years back and he was pretty cool.

I shouldn't be surprised at this. The cultists on the left started to set their sights on the Internet Archive if the threads on kia2 are any indication, and the publishing industry is rife with their ilk.

[–]RatMan29 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I'm surprised the Archive hasn't come under attack before this. At least part of it is on European sites like archive.it, and Europe now has a "right to be forgotten" law. There ought to be multiple archives around the world to get around difficulties like that.