Kiwi Farms has been removed from the Internet Archive

Re:Kiwi Farms has been removed from the Internet Archive by devwastaken on Wednesday September 07, 2022 @09:33AM (#32750365)

IA isn't a "platform". Claiming censorship does not mean deserving of a platform. Reality is they already have a platform, and will continue to do so, now in even more anonymous methods. Preventing users from being held responsible.

The best that could have been done is if CF continued to proxy it, and answered discovery and court orders, that way users could be unmasked and prosecuted. But now they got away free.

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Re:Kiwi Farms has been removed from the Internet Archive by justin66 on Wednesday September 07, 2022 @09:44AM (#32750523)

The IA can easily switch visibility of sites in the archive on or off and the most common case is when somebody changes their robots.txt settings. No data is lost. You don't really believe they would be unwilling to comply with a subpoena for information from a prosecutor investigating Kiwi Farms, or an attorney seeking damages in a civil suit, or whatever, do you?

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Re:Kiwi Farms has been removed from the Internet Archive by joshstrange on Wednesday September 07, 2022 @09:45AM (#32750526)

The idea that the police cared or were going to do shit is laughable. As is the idea that we should keep KF online for that purpose.

> But now they got away free.

That was always going to happen. Keeping them/old content online was never going to change that. Our "justice" system is horribly broken.

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