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The Internet Archive is under a DDoS attack (bsky.app)
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[–] [email protected] 90 points 5 months ago (2 children)

People that dont want their history revealed

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Don't they honour deletion requests

[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 months ago

Yes but I believe the requests themselves are actually publicly available knowledge.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I think it depends on the circumstances. I work for a publisher and submitted a request for one of my clients copyrighted books to be removed from the archive, and they took it down the same day.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

I think they'd legally have to as well if something violated GDPR

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

I don't think so, reading their terms.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

No idea. Hope not