Our investigation into the suspicious pressure on Archive.today

Re:Our investigation into the suspicious pressure on Archive... by mattmaroon on Saturday November 15, 2025 @07:19AM (#45936940)

I doubt they’d have to. If the site truly doesn’t remove CSAM I’ve no doubt plenty of it would end up there organically. You wouldn’t have to upload any anywhere, you’d only need to know some URLs to look for which presumably any major law enforcement agency would.

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Re:Our investigation into the suspicious pressure on Archive... by attila-lendvai on Saturday November 15, 2025 @07:36AM (#45937022)

they removed it promptly.

remember: god kills a kitten every time you comment/assume something without reading it...

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Re:Our investigation into the suspicious pressure on Archive... by Wowfunhappy on Saturday November 15, 2025 @08:37AM (#45937378)

> Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that".

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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Re:Our investigation into the suspicious pressure on Archive... by ikamm on Saturday November 15, 2025 @10:04AM (#45937892)

There are very few guidelines listed there that this community actually follows

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Re:Our investigation into the suspicious pressure on Archive... by mattmaroon on Saturday November 15, 2025 @09:10AM (#45937588)

I read the whole thing you just didn’t understand my comment. That’s my fault because I left out one word, “automatically”. Fixed it.

The person to whom I was replying thought that perhaps someone wanting to stop Archive was uploading CSAM and getting them to crawl it. I was pointing out that they didn’t have to do the first step, the internet has lots of that stuff apparently, they merely had to have a list of urls (law enforcement could easily provide) and check Archive for them.

Archive doesn’t do this automatically apparently, as some platforms do, so there’s probably plenty of it there.

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Re:Our investigation into the suspicious pressure on Archive... by mattmaroon on Saturday November 15, 2025 @09:15AM (#45937608)

Also, it’s quite possible that they normally simply ignore these requests and in this case, they removed it because of it mentioning law enforcement or potential lawsuits and coming from somebody who has the power to block their site from a lot of people.

I’m not saying I know or believe that to be the case, I have no knowledge at all here, but it’s entirely possible archive ignores most of these requests and responded to this one.

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