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There are three that we've noticed so far: https://bbs.boingboing.net/t/as-the-end-nears-for-yahoo-groups-verizon-pulls-out-all-the-stops-to-keep-archivists-fr

by Diagon 7y ago

There are three that we've noticed so far: https://bbs.boingboing.net/t/as-the-end-nears-for-yahoo-groups-verizon-pulls-out-all-the-stops-to-keep-archivists-from-preserving-them/156924 https://bbs.boingboing.net/t/as-the-end-nears-for-yahoo-grou... https://www.zdnet.com/article/verizon-kills-email-accounts-of-archivists-trying-to-save-yahoo-groups-history/ https://www.zdnet.com/article/verizon-kills-email-accounts-o... https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/3084557/verizon-blocks-archivists-yahoo-group-content https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/3084557/verizon-bl... But yes, you are right. We need to keep pushing it into the public sphere. Twitter, Reddit, I hate to mention FB here, but ...

OJFord 7y ago
I don't really consider those 'mainstream news', I've only heard of zdnet - I thought boingboing was a public WiFi hotspot provider. I primarily mean newspapers. The Times (of London & New York), The Guardian, but Bloomberg too. The story is probably a wider point about the fragility of online information, for which this is a mere significant event, but without that happening I just don't see the give-a-shit count increasing.