It’s hard to rewrite the past if someone’s keeping receipts
Comment on FBI Tries to Unmask Owner of Infamous Archive.is Site
deathbird@mander.xyz 2 months ago
No for real, why? Why are they persuing this?
zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
frongt@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
npr.org/…/internet-archive-wayback-machine-trump
eah@programming.dev 2 months ago
The administration didn’t threaten to take down the IA or investigate it or anything like that, so it’s not similar at all.
It’s conspiratorial to think the FBI is doing this to censor or hide something. archive.is is primarily used to get around paywalls. The most likely explanation is news sites complained to the FBI that their copyrights are being violated (which is true), so the FBI is investigating. They’ve had a problem with falling revenue for a decade or more at this point as everything went online and people expected to get instance access for free in contrast to print media.
deathbird@mander.xyz 2 months ago
I suspect they’re going after .is because they are more resistant to taking things down. But that’s speculation on my part. And even if I’m right, what is it that they actually are trying to remove?