Electronic Frontier Foundation2d ago
Imagine a newspaper publisher refusing to let libraries keep copies of its paper. That’s effectively what’s starting online, as big publishers block the Internet Archive from preserving news sites. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/03/blocking-internet-archive-wont-stop-ai-it-will-erase-webs-historical-record
Blocking the Internet Archive Won’t Stop AI, But It Will Erase the Web’s Historical Record

Imagine a newspaper publisher announcing it will no longer allow libraries to keep copies of its paper. That’s effectively what’s begun happening online in the last few months. The Internet Archive—the world’s largest digital library—has preserved newspapers since it went online in the mid-1990s....

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Show threadSteve Yelvington2d ago

@eff

The hedge funds that are burning American newspapers have demonstrated they care not one whit for historical records.

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@steve @eff

more exactly, lack of historical records allows plutocrats the ability to rewrite history, and people being unable to know what the truth is

"in 2023 you said..."

"there's no record of that. and chatgpt says i said the opposite"

😒 😒 😒

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Show threadRusty2d ago

@benroyce @steve @eff this is why They want to jack up HDD prices, use surveillance state age verification measures, and take down the internet archive. They want to erase knowledge and write their own histories, and make it illegal for free thought to exist.

Its been said before, 1984 is their playbook.