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The internet is something that will live on long after we're all dead Yup, but how much of what’s online today will? Bitrot kills, and it seems like a lot of t

• TangoTrotFox 9y ago
  I think there is a substantial difference in things that are, let's say, naturally 'forgotten' versus things that powers that be attempt to force society to 'forget.' I completely agree with you that bitrot is a major issue, but it's a different issue with different resolutions. And it's fortunate that there are a number of sites making some remarkable effort to preserve the internet including organizations like the Internet Archive. However, might these sort of rules eventually make it unlawful for the Internet Archive to even allow users to search their archive for certain things that governments decide ought be forgotten? This all just feels as though we're inching towards dystopia. --- As a related aside, one tool I think people should really use much more often is date filtering in searching. This [1] is a search on google for 'Iraq' from January-March 1 2003. The US would invade Iraq on March 20th. All of those results are 15+ years old now. I'm sure much has been lost to time, but fortunately there is also a lot that has not. [1] - https://www.google.com/search?tbs=cdr%3A1%2Ccd_min%3AJanuary+1+2003%2Ccd_max%3AMarch+1+2003&q=iraq&oq=iraq https://www.google.com/search?tbs=cdr%3A1%2Ccd_min%3AJanuary...