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DDoSing a website, modifying their archives surreptitiously to serve their own wants (which was what tipped Wikipedia towards banning their use), running weird
by bulder 25d ago
DDoSing a website, modifying their archives surreptitiously to serve their own wants (which was what tipped Wikipedia towards banning their use), running weird sockpuppet campaigns to build dependence on them, and fucking with Cloudflare's DNS resolution to prevent anti-tracking measures from working.
Oh and even if I wanted to ignore all of this, I couldn't use them anyways because they blackholed the majority of Finnish IP ranges after the DDoS incident to I guess punish the entire country for the targeted blogger being born here.
- dakolli 25d agoarchive.today has been targeted by Western institutions, like the FBI, for over a year now. Which signals to me they are the good guys.
- SXX 25d agoCome on. It's not WikiLeaks. If they were targeted by FBI it would be down.
- dakolli 25d agoWhat do you mean, I didnt make it up... Its detailed on the archive.today wikipedia page. The media barrons in the west have bribed the US government to pursue archive criminally on their behalf for helping people bypass paywalls. https://www.theverge.com/news/815691/fbi-subpoena-archive-is-owner https://www.theverge.com/news/815691/fbi-subpoena-archive-is...
- bulder 25d agoThat's great, how does that absolve the archive.today maintainer's bad faith activities, including creating a country-wall?
- DaSHacka 25d agoBecause if he's being targeted by the feds, he obviously he doesn't want his private information being published by some guy who self-admittedly did it on a whim? Is this really that hard to understand?
- dakolli 25d agoUmm, every USA company blocks North Korea, Iran and often Cuba. One guy blocking a single country is not at all problematic.
- wongarsu 25d agoAll that tells us is that the site is probably not run by the FBI. It could still be run by the CIA, Russian intelligence, or some lone morally neutral guy from Prague
- bawolff 25d agoIf it was run by the CIA or russian intelligence, they wouldn't have burned their asset with petty grudges.
- nosrepa 25d agoHave you seen this current administration?
- DaSHacka 25d agoYou realize the CIA is nonpartisan, right?
- someguyiguess 25d agoI genuinely cannot tell if this was meant to be humorous.