Electronic Frontier Foundation
For nearly 30 years, journalists have relied on the Internet Archive to see how stories were originally published, before edits, removals, or changes. We need to safeguard that. 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....

Electronic Frontier Foundation
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Show threadRustyRing18h ago

@eff

That service has been targeted for de facto elimination every day since it was founded. I think that says more about this era of history than just about anything else.

Show threadAskPippa🇨🇦15h ago
@eff There needs to be an offline backup overseas.
Show threadNicole Parsons11h ago

@eff

The internet archive preserves access to the news.

As paywalls, adtech spyware cookies, de-anonymization age verification laws, and AI Slop information pollution subsumes access to reliable information...

... billionaires keep funding fascism.

https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/the-american-billionaires-who-fell-in-love-with-fascism-are-not-the-first

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/techno-fascism-comes-to-america-elon-musk

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/30/uline-worker-resigns

The American Billionaires Who Fell In Love With Fascism Are Not the First | Common Dreams

The ultra-rich will happily march us into a dictatorship if we let them.

Common Dreams
Show threadCress11h ago

@eff

I hear having data removed from the Internet Archive can be a challenge.

I sort of feel this archive falls short in terms of responsibility and accountability, its not a million authors publishing history books, its a bunch of scrapers saving as much as possible to disks for ever. Not sure I like that.

Show threadtuban_muzuru9h ago

@CressSalad @eff

It will give the future an accurate record, however irresponsible it may be. On the accounting side, the archive will have the data

Show threadCress9h ago

@tuban_muzuru @eff

The examples I read about (actually before the Internet Archive was hacked) was personal and private information was scraped and it became indexed in the main search engines even when removed on the origin. If your a lady with a stalker, archives like this need a kill switch for entries. I know in theory they do (report this page), but it takes a lot of effort to keep the internet clean of damaging info. Constant scraping and hoarding.

Show threadtuban_muzuru9h ago

@CressSalad @eff

... well sure, I'll stipulate to all that. Sure, you'd strip the standard PII materials.

Show threadMr. Kane11h ago
@eff archive.today ftw
Show threadᴸᵒᶜᵏᵉᵈ ᴵⁿᵗᵒ ˢᵖᵃᶜᵉ°•°•°•9h ago
@eff Thank you for existing, Internet Archive! <3