Comment by kome

3 years ago

that's not how an archive should work. but perhaps Internet Archive is not an archive and it doesn't want to be one.

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worldofmatthew  3 years ago

Its not the first time. Before than it was censoring content content that Scientology disliked. There was also the case of Snopes not being archived until a year ago, even after it got more involved in declaring more serious topics, rather than just internet urban legends.

There are people within the internet archive whose politics is so strong that I have said in private since 2016 that I have concerns they are a risk to the neutrality of the project. I am not going to mention their name to avoid a flamewar but that name will be mentioned more by others if they decide to remove more content.

klyrs  3 years ago

So if they scrape a kiddie porn site, they should keep that publicly available in perpetuity? That's not how the world works.

  • byyll  3 years ago

    Viewing child porn is illegal, viewing anything on KiwiFarms isn't, in most places, including the US where the "Internet Archive" is.

  • ardfard  3 years ago

    More apt comparison, should we erase Meinkampf or Das Kapital or any books that inspire violences (for example, the holy books) from existence?

    • krapp  3 years ago

      That isn't apt, because removing Kiwi Farms from the Internet Archive doesn't remove it from existence.

      Apt would be, should publishers have the right not to publish material like Mein Kampf, if they so choose, or does "free speech" now mean that all publishers must be forced to publish everything, however objectionable, if legal?

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