📺 Just released by the BBC: a powerful video on the mission of the Internet Archive & the Wayback Machine.

“A time machine for the web,” preserving everything from lost government websites to books & records—before they vanish.

🔗 Explore: web.archive.org
🎥 Watch ⬇️ youtu.be/jh98N46DM5k

Love how the economy is becoming a Russian nesting doll of tech companies built to solve the problems created by other tech companies

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/t...

"Age verification" laws are actually "upload your ID or get your face scanned to access every website, ending anonymity and associating your identity with everything you do online" laws and if more people understood that they would not be down for this authoritarian nonsense

If you cannot call it what it is when all in a week: a government removes every mention of a group of people, destroys information about them en masse, bans their discussion in schools, restricts their ability to travel and starts seizing and refusing their official identification, when will you?

@mmasnick.bsky.social is on point: "Let’s be crystal clear about what’s happening: A private citizen with zero Constitutional authority is effectively seizing control of critical government functions."

www.techdirt.com/2025/01/31/e...

The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...