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339 points Wingy | 6 comments | 16 Oct 24 11:09 UTC | HN request time: 0.407s | source | bottom
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throwaway48476 ◴[16 Oct 24 12:22 UTC] No.41858246[source]▶
When the internet archive censors a website is it deleted permanently or just not publicly available?
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chirau ◴[16 Oct 24 12:33 UTC] No.41858337[source]▶
I don't think they censor anything, strictly archiving. Do you know of any instance in which they censored a site?
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1. edgineer ◴[16 Oct 24 12:53 UTC] No.41858519[source]▶
Kiwi farms
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2. mcpar-land ◴[16 Oct 24 13:23 UTC] No.41858777[source]▶
good
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3. Cthulhu_ ◴[16 Oct 24 13:31 UTC] No.41858857[source]▶
An argument can be made that they should retain a copy for future lawsuits / investigations, but... kiwi farms won't have anything public, and I hope that law enforcement has their private archive where they gather everything.
4. nikisweeting ◴[16 Oct 24 14:33 UTC] No.41859494[source]▶
There are people that maintain "non-public archives" of stuff like that for litigation, long-term archival storage (think sealed boxes intended for future generations of historians. (Libraries, laywers, journalists can run their own WebRecorder, Perma.cc, ArchiveBox, etc. instances)

I think that's a reasonable middle ground, we don't necessarily need every single piece of heinous content mirrored for free access 24/7 the moment it appears anywhere on the internet, as long as there is some historic record somewhere that's probably ok.

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6. DrillShopper ◴[16 Oct 24 21:15 UTC] No.41863926[source]▶
Nah, we don't need to archive their targeted harassment.