TheWayBackMachine has Begun Censorship

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[–]Jesus[S] 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

mintpressnews: https://www.mintpressnews.com/wayback-machine-latest-victim-of-big-tech-consolidation-and-censorship/267852/

[–]Tom_Bombadil 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

We need a Way-way-back machine...

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

On a serious note, IPFS would work at archiving websites naturally. It gives you a "wayback machine" like access to everything that gets uploaded to the network but it is different from using the world wide web and still not as mature, its like using the internet in the 90's. Also, since IPFS is peer to peer, with each user storing a copy of the website on their harddrive, it becomes difficult (though not impossible) for a centralized authority to impose its censorship of content on the network

[–]FormosaOolong 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I've been watching things disappear from there for several years now.

[–][deleted] 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Me too. The internet did a good job archiving what they felt was important for them though (i guess we should have seen this coming - I remember whenever there was a happening, everyone was like webarchive, webarchive!), almost like building a library to see how much or what society knows/has evidence of/has saved.

[–]teelo 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

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please travel back in time before we censored it.

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

But, now the Wayback Internet archive is trending down this slippery slope with its recently implemented labeling of snapshot results as potential disinformation.