Innerworld@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agoAt least 3 major outlets — The New York Times, The Guardian, and Reddit — have blocked the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine from accessing their contentwww.mediapost.comexternal-linkmessage-square70fedilinkarrow-up1514arrow-down14
arrow-up1510arrow-down1external-linkAt least 3 major outlets — The New York Times, The Guardian, and Reddit — have blocked the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine from accessing their contentwww.mediapost.comInnerworld@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agomessage-square70fedilink
minus-squareTony Bark@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up138·edit-23 days agoReally? They think Internet Archive is the problem?
minus-squareAmbitiousProcess (they/them)@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up65arrow-down1·3 days agoThey think AI companies are using it as a “backdoor” to scrape their content. Which is patently ridiculous, but that won’t stop them.
minus-squareTollana1234567@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 day agoreddit already allows AI to scrape the site, specifically google.
minus-squareAmbitiousProcess (they/them)@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·23 hours ago reddit already allows AI to scrape the site *for a fee If the wayback machine was an actually workable backdoor to Reddit’s content, none of these companies would ever have any reason to pay them, and that’s what they’re scared about.
minus-squareohulancutash@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up21·3 days agoThey think they want their revenue streams
minus-squareameancow@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·edit-22 days agoYah it’s a problem for their agenda of manufacturing culture, social discourse and consent for hundreds of millions of people.
minus-squareTollana1234567@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 day agoits thier excuse to silence dissent, when the time comes to censor overreaching “political trends”
Really? They think Internet Archive is the problem?
They think AI companies are using it as a “backdoor” to scrape their content. Which is patently ridiculous, but that won’t stop them.
reddit already allows AI to scrape the site, specifically google.
*for a fee
If the wayback machine was an actually workable backdoor to Reddit’s content, none of these companies would ever have any reason to pay them, and that’s what they’re scared about.
They think they want their revenue streams
Yah it’s a problem for their agenda of manufacturing culture, social discourse and consent for hundreds of millions of people.
its thier excuse to silence dissent, when the time comes to censor overreaching “political trends”