As major news outlets cut off the Wayback Machine, journalists and advocacy groups are rallying to protect the Internet Archive’s vast collection of web pages.
I couldn’t even read this all because "I have already read my last free article…
The Internet's Most Powerful Archiving Tool Is in Peril
Submitted 4 hours ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to technology@lemmy.zip
https://www.wired.com/story/the-internets-most-powerful-archiving-tool-is-in-mortal-peril/
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WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 3 hours ago
What’s up with that anyways?
If you go in with no cookies you still get that. Bitch you don’t s know what I’ve read! Maybe I’ve never read wired even offline. Then your statement is false.
sepiroth154@feddit.nl 3 hours ago
I take it as a threat. Come at me, wired!
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 3 hours ago
It’s all about the benjamins:
A number of other major journalism organizations have also recently moved to restrict the Wayback Machine from archiving their stories, including The New York Times. According to analysis by the artificial-intelligence-detection startup Originality AI, 23 major news sites are currently blocking ia_archiverbot, the web crawler commonly used by the Internet Archive for the Wayback project. The social platform Reddit is too. Other outlets are limiting the project in different ways: The Guardian does not block the crawler, but it excludes its content from the Internet Archive API and filters out articles from the Wayback Machine interface, which makes it harder for regular people to access archived versions of its articles.
homes@piefed.world 2 hours ago
I certainly hope that the Wayback machine is setting up a number of independent proxies.
leoj@piefed.zip 4 hours ago
truth will die if there is no archive or independent archive.
snoons@lemmy.ca 4 hours ago
IMO all things on the clearnet will eventually succumb to near constant corporate influence. I2P will be the main way people actually use the internet in the future I think, though ofc I only have a surface level knowledge of what it is.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 3 hours ago
I2p has some serious issues
snoons@lemmy.ca 3 hours ago
I don’t doubt it.
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 4 hours ago
Journalism is already dead if journalists cannot defend the archive service for their journalism from the pointless wrath of their own employers.
shrugs I mean I look forward to one day rebuilding these things when we finally have a chance but this is the end of the road for traditional news organizations on the internet.