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If you're not paying attention to what's going on with The Internet Archive, you're missing a BIG story. This is NOT good. Currently they are under DDOS and this is after they're being sued out of existence for digitizing 78rpm records that aren't even available anymore. They're facing a $600+MM lawsuit. They previously lost a suit during the 'demic when they released digitized books for free. The likelihood that they will end up shut down and entire histories of the net will be lost forever is high.

alp 1y ago

I have a rather controversial opinion about them: From a purely personal perspective, I don't find them that important. I'm not particularly positive towards them. I'm not negative either, but I wouldn't miss them.

I have a lot of reservations about the 'right to be forgotten' on the internet and I don't think much of services that archive things without asking and by default (opt-out). I advocate for self-sovereignty, not for a service that undermines any efforts on my part as a website operator when I want to take something offline.

I know there is a robots.txt directive to prevent them from archiving everything. But, as I said, that's an opt-out, not an opt-in.

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