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Re:The Internet Archive is waging war on misinformation by La1n on Thursday September 19, 2019 @03:36AM (#21014142)
Exactly, people act like restricting access (or in this case voluntarily not storing something) will also remove all the surrounding information about it. I didn't need to read pro-slavery propaganda to know slavery is bad, and I didn't need to read every type of propaganda to know or learn how propaganda works.

Edit: Also this thread is full of people (including me to be fair) not providing any sources to whatever they feel is true.

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Re:The Internet Archive is waging war on misinformation by concordDance on Thursday September 19, 2019 @04:09AM (#21014292)
And I didn't need to read pro-atheism propaganda to know that atheism was bad. Thankfully, at some point my "question everything" principles eventually lead to me investigating that.

(Unfortunately it also lead to me investigating other ideas which are far less popular than atheism in the modern day, so I guess you might have a point)

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Re:The Internet Archive is waging war on misinformation by dragonwriter on Thursday September 19, 2019 @05:58AM (#21014785)
> I didn't need to read pro-slavery propaganda to know slavery is bad

OTOH, one might need to read original pro-slavery propaganda to know that the myth, long adopted in many US states’ education systems as its own revisionist propaganda, that the Confederacy was not centrally about slavery and racism, was a lie.

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