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The New York Times tried to block the Internet Archive: another reason to value the latter

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<p>Walled Culture has already written about the two–pronged attack by the copyright industry against the Internet Archive, which was founded by Brewster Kahle, whose Kahle/Austin Foundation supports this blog. The Intercept has an interesting article that reveals another reason why some newspaper pu...

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The New York Times tried to block the Internet Archive: another reason to value the latter

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The New York Times tried to block the Internet Archive: another reason to value the latter

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If I've learned anything in life, it's that the capitalists will get their way one way or another against any attempts at human benevolence or community.
They always do.
I have high hopes for climate change though. It can't be bribed or coerced into obscurity. I think the capitalists bit off more than they can hide from trying to exploit mother earth for private profit like just another peasant sucker, and unlike us cowering capital batteries, she's had it with our species' shit.

We have always been at war with Oceania.

- They want to hide shadow edits, something that brings up questions of journalistic integrity
  If you can be trusted to be honest as a news source, you shouldn't be a news source. IA helps keep them honest on this front
- Honestly as NYT subscriber I really doubt that people actually read NYT through archive or at least most of the archive reader wouldn't convert anyway. To me it seems like a bad sign of them trying to hide something. Archive is a public way to track website changes which is very valuable for validating journalism.
  In general NYT is trying to have their content public and take advantage of indexing but also private for selling subscriptions. It's a bit of a paradox that really diminishes their position here.
- ^ This sort of bullshit argument is why we never should've stopped requiring a copy of everything to be sent to the Library of Congress in order to earn copyright protection.
  Those "private businesses" are treating a privilege granted by Congress as an entitlement. They do not "get" to do that.

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