Archive: May 18, 2020

The censorship weak points of the Internet Archive

?The setup is far from perfect.

Didi Rankovic

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Just like Wikipedia presents itself as an actual encyclopedia – and is accepted by many as such – so the Internet Archive bills itself as an actual digital archive and library.

But as some of their inner workings have been coming to light over the recent years, trust has slowly been eroding in both these big digital presences that are supposed to collect, organize, and archive information reliably, without prejudice and bias…

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