Comment by 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.
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.
This comparison summons the Four Horsemen of the Infocalypse
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Horsemen_of_the_Infocalyp...
Not really. It's a clear demonstration that archives do not retain everything always. Whatever you read into it beyond that is on you.
Viewing child porn is illegal, viewing anything on KiwiFarms isn't, in most places, including the US where the "Internet Archive" is.
More apt comparison, should we erase Meinkampf or Das Kapital or any books that inspire violences (for example, the holy books) from existence?
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?
> That isn't apt, because removing Kiwi Farms from the Internet Archive doesn't remove it from existence.
The remove part was done already. They are not on the internet anymore. It was removed from Internet Archive because it contains some inconvenient information about DIY HRT to minors and other accusations.