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They Are Scrubbing the Internet Right Now

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Category - internet censorship

The web archive web.archive.org/, that has held much of the internet in storage for 30 years, was attacked in a coordinated manner a few weeks ago. According to the article, it may only itself survive in an archive form - ie nothing new would be stored.

At about the same time Google ended it’s cache service whereby an old version of a link was displayed if the latest version didn’t have the searched-for text. I found this useful as if the search item wasn’t there when you click the link, it usually means it has been removed. That was a cue to check the …archive

Important article from Brownstone fleshes out the grim detail…

ED

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Yes, that’s a very important piece of news.

Much as I hesitate to cite this source, this is an even bigger breaking story

I believe the Web is being “exposed” as dangerous and insecure, and will “have to be” fenced-in by some “trusted” agency/corporation.

When a vicious cull of newspapers and websites follows we will know for sure that the Wild West Web days of finding answers for yourself are gone.

RIP

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#3

Yes all these straws are in the wind, just waiting for a suitable place to land and take root.
The BBC thinks it IS that trusted corporation, of course.

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