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The most troubling part of this article was that the website is excluded from the Wayback Machine. Why? How? Isn't it supposed to be a neutral historical archiv
by bomewish 3y ago
The most troubling part of this article was that the website is excluded from the Wayback Machine. Why? How? Isn't it supposed to be a neutral historical archive? How can some sites just decide they don't want to be indexed??
- mtmail 3y agoI thought they might have added an entry to robots.txt but archive.org ignored those https://blog.archive.org/2017/04/17/robots-txt-meant-for-search-engines-dont-work-well-for-web-archives/ https://blog.archive.org/2017/04/17/robots-txt-meant-for-sea...
- neurostimulant 3y agoAfaik if you can demonstrate that the archived contents are belong to you, you can send a request to the internet archive to take down that content.
- bomewish 3y agoBut why would they (should they) honour that? And it doesn't seem their policy there is very clear or explicit. Doesn't it also mean that in cases where a domain changes hands, the new owner would be able to purge the content of the previous owner, etc. etc.? Total lack of transparency around it is concerning.
- neurostimulant 3y ago> Doesn't it also mean that in cases where a domain changes hands, the new owner would be able to purge the content of the previous owner If the domain changes hands, I don't think they'll approve the removal request unless the new owner can demonstrate that they own the previous contents of the domain as well. You can't send DMCA take down request for content you don't own, right? But I think it's up to the Internet Archive to decide, and they do have DMCA exemption for some class of contents. https://help.archive.org/help/how-do-i-request-to-remove-something-from-archive-org/ https://help.archive.org/help/how-do-i-request-to-remove-som...