▲ 595 ▼ FBI Tries to Unmask Owner of Infamous Archive.is Site (www.404media.co) submitted 1 year ago by silence7@slrpnk.net to c/technology@lemmy.world 107 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] deathbird@mander.xyz 37 points 1 year ago (4 children) No for real, why? Why are they persuing this? permalink fedilink source hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] frongt@lemmy.zip 40 points 1 year ago* (2 children) https://www.npr.org/2025/03/23/nx-s1-5326573/internet-archive-wayback-machine-trump Different archive, same principle. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] eah@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago* The administration didn't threaten to take down the IA or investigate it or anything like that, so it's not similar at all. It's conspiratorial to think the FBI is doing this to censor or hide something. archive.is is primarily used to get around paywalls. The most likely explanation is news sites complained to the FBI that their copyrights are being violated (which is true), so the FBI is investigating. They've had a problem with falling revenue for a decade or more at this point as everything went online and people expected to get instant access for free in contrast to print media. permalink fedilink source parent [–] deathbird@mander.xyz 1 point 1 year ago I suspect they're going after .is because they are more resistant to taking things down. But that's speculation on my part. And even if I'm right, what is it that they actually are trying to remove? permalink fedilink source parent [–] zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 year ago It's hard to rewrite the past if someone's keeping receipts permalink fedilink source parent
[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 40 points 1 year ago* (2 children) https://www.npr.org/2025/03/23/nx-s1-5326573/internet-archive-wayback-machine-trump Different archive, same principle. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] eah@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago* The administration didn't threaten to take down the IA or investigate it or anything like that, so it's not similar at all. It's conspiratorial to think the FBI is doing this to censor or hide something. archive.is is primarily used to get around paywalls. The most likely explanation is news sites complained to the FBI that their copyrights are being violated (which is true), so the FBI is investigating. They've had a problem with falling revenue for a decade or more at this point as everything went online and people expected to get instant access for free in contrast to print media. permalink fedilink source parent [–] deathbird@mander.xyz 1 point 1 year ago I suspect they're going after .is because they are more resistant to taking things down. But that's speculation on my part. And even if I'm right, what is it that they actually are trying to remove? permalink fedilink source parent
[–] eah@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago* The administration didn't threaten to take down the IA or investigate it or anything like that, so it's not similar at all. It's conspiratorial to think the FBI is doing this to censor or hide something. archive.is is primarily used to get around paywalls. The most likely explanation is news sites complained to the FBI that their copyrights are being violated (which is true), so the FBI is investigating. They've had a problem with falling revenue for a decade or more at this point as everything went online and people expected to get instant access for free in contrast to print media. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] deathbird@mander.xyz 1 point 1 year ago I suspect they're going after .is because they are more resistant to taking things down. But that's speculation on my part. And even if I'm right, what is it that they actually are trying to remove? permalink fedilink source parent
[–] zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 year ago It's hard to rewrite the past if someone's keeping receipts permalink fedilink source parent