Re:A Thread about Internet Archive's “Silent Killer”
by ghaff on Wednesday December 11, 2019 @03:52PM
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It may also be worth observing that it's how pretty much any private company website operates. Arguably the FDA should be different and archive old, even outdated, content. But, while private companies may explicitly archive some materials like press releases and earnings reports, 99.9% of their focus is on the current content and they'll mostly just delete anything that's not in service of today.
This seems like a prime example of Hanlon's razor. Tight government budgets and lowest-bidder contractors not bothering with page permanence strike me as the most likely explanation.