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Ars Technica
Wikipedia blacklists Archive.today, starts removing 695,000 archive links
In the course of discussing whether Archive.today should be deprecated because of the DDoS, Wikipedia editors discovered that the archive site altered snapshots of webpages to insert the name of the blogger who was targeted by the DDoS. The alterations were apparently fueled by a grudge against the blogger over a post that described how the Archive.today maintainer hid their identity behind several aliases.
we can’t have nice things. The fact that this random web caching site run by one person is even important today is because we have lost the open web. This is a symptom of our broken system dominated by tech monopolies who don’t care about history, culture, or a shared set of information that we can use to understand our world.
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Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?
Reminded of this saying by the way right wing media frames every minor complaint as an existential threat and asks, "why aren't people acting violently about this right now?" knowing a portion of their audience will make it happen and they'll never face consequences.
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