Electronic Frontier Foundation1d 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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Society has given up more than it realises in moving to a digital world and abandoning paper publications. It will be much easier to literally rewrite history if there's no physical record of it any more.

Mar 19 at 10:13pmWeb
Show threadRusty1d ago
@FediThing @eff this is why our tech overlords love that physical media is dead for the majority of people. That was the last shred of ownership the tech bros couldn't weasel out of. Well, now its all gone, you will own nothing.