Brought to you by the Department of Erasing History.

        • girsaysdoom@sh.itjust.works
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          1 year ago

          It might be that someone wanted to change something that was on a website before the archive could get to it too.

          • KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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            That’s a ridiculous amount of effort to go through to slow down a scraper for one site, especially when that site could just be… turned off.

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      1 year ago

      Modification of history is one of the most common tools of dictators

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        1 year ago

        But they have back up to the entire thing am pretty sure any change would be detectable if a dictator is behind this then he’s extremely stupid

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          If the internet archive goes offline we can just view a cached version of it at the internet archi OH NO!