It certainly sounds that way
Comment on Adguard DNS: Our investigation into the suspicious pressure on Archive.today
breakingcups@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
I’m guessing whoever is sending those letters snapshotted the CSAM on archive.today themselves to have leverage to take them down.
Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
It’s the same Christian fascist lobby groups financed by psychopathic oligarchs and their corporations… I guarantee it. It’s analogous to their attacks on wikipedia, VPN’s, encryption, and our education and judicial systems.
Their goal is to control or destroy all sources of information on the planet that are anti-authoritarian and anti-fascist — like they have been doing with the media, education, legal and judicial system in the USA, for decades — one at a time, using every tool at their disposal. Web archiving tools document fascisms psychological warfare across the internet, so they obviously must be destroyed.
floofloof@lemmy.ca 22 hours ago
Web archives preserve information the US Government has deleted, like reports on the economy, climate change, and Black history. In general they work against censorship of the internet. This is just another case of using “protecting the children” as a cudgel to kill politically inconvenient sources of information.
MasterBlaster@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
There’s a part of me that wants to cringe from the conspiracy thinking clear in this response. Unfortunately, the logical, observational part of me is much bigger. I see the patterns on this one.
I just this morning got a privacy update from my Asus router. They’re going to start collecting my usage. I clicked disagree, and it went to another popup warning that I will lose most of the features I rely upon, with a button “re-read”. How is this not extortion?
Now I have to go through the traumatic process of installing wwdrt and hope I don’t brick my internet access entirely.
Several months ago, my brother scanner software would not work until I gave it permission to send my scans to their server. I no longer use that software.
The surveillance state is expanding at an exponential rate. We are amidst the " great reset" the right wingers warned of, but it is driven by their “great” leaders.
IronBird@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
it all ties back to peter theil and murdoch, the world over.
maybe there are some big “silent partner” types i’v missed but every dirty little fascist rabbithole like this i’v dug through eventually ended at the doorstep to theil or murdoch
peopleproblems@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
It’s not even a conspiracy.
Authoritarianism is inherently anti-intellectualism.
mierdabird@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 hours ago
What was the ASUS privacy update? In the router settings page? I haven’t seen it yet but I don’t use any of their extra services