On March 1st the U.S. Controlled Wayback Machine Started Blocking Access to Russian News Agency Tass Articles.

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[–]cat256 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (8 children)

just checked it still backed those up? also if you know how to code you can find some repos on github that does this automatically on your machine while keep protesting about things like this. also wayback machine did far more good than harm and you can see they got sued pretty bad last year for keeping shit up and available on hackernews.

[–]LarrySwinger2 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (7 children)

Nobody's saying they're doing more harm than good. We all love archive.org. But it's worrisome if even that site has to start censoring.

[–]cat256 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

can you bring more examples though? like they run on a limited budget and one exception is not convincing.

[–]LarrySwinger2 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Okay. I'm not sure if this is that. It's just something to be vigilant about. Secret courts are a thing. They do comply when they're being pressured. For example, they don't archive quora.com.

[–]cat256 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

yeah, that's kinda interesting. i need to code tomorrow, side hustle today... i'd ask around a bit.

edit: so a simple google search would show the result: anti crawling sites like quora and people in the open source community are working on this. see: https://github.com/internetarchive/wayback/issues/228

[–]LarrySwinger2 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

So they want to pressure sites to allow crawling and archiving? I'm not sure if that's the way to go. There should be a decentralized archive, so that there are no legal consequences for anyone. That way, if someone simply decides to crawl them anyway, there's nothing they can do, right? I don't know if .htaccess has to be respected. I don't see why it would.

[–]cat256 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

there are other measures too. or just build your own crawler bot and spread the word on sites like hackernews and other hacktivist sites. i'd do it if i got time.

[–]jamesK_3rd 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

One exception is not convincing?

I feel like this exception is pretty big. And the larger the budget, the more likely to be compromised it becomes.

I think when you become ok censuring one thing, it becomes very easy to censor many things.

[–]cat256 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

well it's hardly an exception first of. as of today they have the link, so you could just screenshot last week and post today and fake that. im not saying you did but that is doable. honestly, i don't think it's that big. it's there. they put it back up. just check.