By removing “extremist content,” platforms are purging human rights evidence

Re:By removing “extremist content,” platforms are purging hu... by schoen on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @06:57PM (#21339944)

I don't think your interpretation of the latter case is quite right. In my understanding, the Archive is willing to disable display of the site content retroactively due to a new robots.txt, but they won't delete that content. It will still be present in their files.

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Re:By removing “extremist content,” platforms are purging hu... by chongli on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @07:01PM (#21339977)

What you’re describing may have been a recent change that I wasn’t aware of. If so, it’s at least some consolation. We could still do better.

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Re:By removing “extremist content,” platforms are purging hu... by gbear605 on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @10:54PM (#21341257)

I believe that that has been the case for the entire existence of Wayback, not just recently.

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