Some news organizations are restricting access to the #WaybackMachine over fears of AI scraping. Mark Graham @mark, director of the Wayback Machine, explains why these concerns are unfounded and that blocking archives risks harming the public record.

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https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/17/preserving-the-web-is-not-the-problem-losing-it-is/

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Maybe we'll get #JohnOliver to cover it. There wound up being two days of coverage over at #TechDirt that kept me giggling. 

Here's the second, which links to the first, and that one has embedded videos of some of the testimony:

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/03/19/afroman-wins-jury-rules-mocking-cops-who-raided-your-home-is-protected-speech

DOGE Didn't Cut Government Waste. It Was Government Waste

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/03/17/doge-didnt-cut-government-waste-it-was-government-waste/

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Turns Out the DOGE Bros Who Killed Humanities Grants Are Sensitive About It

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/03/16/turns-out-the-doge-bros-who-killed-humanities-grants-are-kinda-sensitive-about-it/

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The Wyden Siren Goes Off Again: We’ll Be “Stunned” By What the NSA Is Doing

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/03/12/the-wyden-siren-goes-off-again-well-be-stunned-by-what-the-nsa-is-doing-under-section-702/

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The Government Told Courts It Could Easily Refund Tariffs. Now It Says It Can't

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/03/09/the-government-told-courts-it-could-easily-refund-unlawful-tariffs-now-it-says-it-cant/

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Training students to prove they're not robots is pushing them to use more AI

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/03/06/were-training-students-to-write-worse-to-prove-theyre-not-robots-and-its-pushing-them-to-use-more-ai/

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Rubio to World: Stop Doing the Exact Same Thing the US Just Did

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/03/03/rubio-to-world-stop-doing-the-exact-same-thing-the-us-just-did/

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It Looks Like The FBI Straight Up Lied To A Judge To Get Permission To Seize Georgia Voting Records

Thanks, Tim Cushing and @mmasnick of #techDirt & @6820211 for this:

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/19/it-looks-like-the-fbi-straight-up-lied-to-a-judge-to-get-permission-to-seize-georgia-voting-records/

> Earlier this month, the FBI decided it was going to help Donald Trump steal back the election he’s claimed for half-a-decade was stolen from him. The state whose Secretary of State was asked directly by the outgoing president in January 2021 to “find 11,780 votes” was raided by Trump 2.0, who still somehow thinks he can win the election he lost back in 2020... It’s not just revenge Trump is seeking. He’s also hoping to find anything that will allow him to cast doubt on midterm election results now that it seems entirely possible the GOP might lose its majority in the legislature...