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Major Web Archive Attacked Pre-Election: Coincidence?

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Posted By: 4250Luis, 11/4/2024 3:51:48 AM

I may be forgiven, I hope, for raising an eyebrow at the curious timing of a large-scale assault on the most prolific and relied-upon web archiving service, Archive.org, which offers a running public record of who said what and when. As an instrument of journalism, web archives can be employed to easily suss out how present narratives or stories presented in corporate media, or anywhere, may conflict with past narratives — in other words, the ultimate check on historical revisionism of the kind that powerful actors engage in regularly.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: minuteman 11/4/2024 6:01:55 AM (No. 1825611)
“Who controls the past,’ ran the Party slogan, ‘controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.’” - Orwell, 1984
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Reply 2 - Posted by: Strike3 11/4/2024 8:40:20 AM (No. 1825678)
I've never heard of it so it couldn't be that important.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: mc squared 11/4/2024 9:00:39 AM (No. 1825686)
I use Archive frequently. Old newspapers, magazines, short movies: a potpourri of historical stuff.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: Historybuff 11/4/2024 11:50:00 AM (No. 1825767)
Extremely valuable resource for any researcher I’ve downloaded many a historical volume. Searchable because the download is a pdf. Took a download of a civil war troop reunion book to Staples and had it printed and bound now no worries about coffee stains or dog ears.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: JoElla Bee 11/4/2024 12:23:54 PM (No. 1825778)
We may not know precisely who did the dirty deed, but the most likely guess about their connections and purposes are probably precisely on target. Also, being celebrated by others whose guesses are the same as ours, but much more desirous of the result of the purposes.
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