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  • Bloomcole@lemmy.worldBanned from communitytoTechnology@lemmy.worldReddit will block the Internet Archive
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    3 days ago

    I know the EU has different (stricter) laws and that they vary between states. (Germany being particularly awful)
    There is however some complicated form of fair use policy.
    If the IA hosts music and books that might be problematic.
    But I’m talking about archived webpages and information previously available to the public with zero commercial value that has been removed.
    And this includes American sites.


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    3 days ago

    Thanks for your detailed explanation.
    When I look that up it’s specifically about ‘defamatory, illegal, or harmful content’.
    That would be understandable to take down.
    Never encountered that myself, the cases I’m referring to were totally legal content AFAIK.
    Only very damaging or proof of something.
    As a hypothetical example, let’s say an organisation posts it’s associated with Epstein in 1999 which now obviously is very inconvenient.
    They understandably remove it from their website but it should stil be on the archive if captured before.
    However, in similar controversial real cases it wasn’t.
    So it appears certain forces have more influence to get them to remove content beyond what’s legally required.
    Since then I always screenshot the archive page.